João Loula

A Task and Motion Approach to the Development of Planning.

2020 · eScholarship (California Digital Library)

Developmental psychology presents us with a puzzle: though children are remarkably apt at planning their actions, theysuffer from surprising yet consistent shortcomings. We argue that these patterns of triumph and failure can be broadlycaptured by …

Human-Level Reinforcement Learning through Theory-Based Modeling, Exploration, and Planning

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Reinforcement learning (RL) studies how an agent comes to achieve reward in an environment through interactions over time. Recent advances in machine RL have surpassed human expertise at the world's oldest board games and many …