Synchronizing to the EnvironmentóConstraints on Agent Learning

How does an agent come to know the environment?

• Agent synchronized to the environment when

  Agent Knows the (Hidden) State of the Environment
  

• Here an information theoretic answer

• Focus on Entropy Growth H(L) = H[Pr(sL)]

• Take derivatives and integrals of H(L)

• Recover in one framework all existing quantities

  hm, E, and G
  

• Introduce a new quantity: Transient Information T

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