Generalization of Reinforcement Learners with Working and Episodic Memory

Meire Fortunato, Melissa Tan, Ryan Faulkner, Steven Hansen, Adrià Puigdomènech Badia, Gavin Buttimore, Charles Deck, Joel Z. Leibo, Charles Blundell

Neural Information Processing Systems 

Memory is an important aspect of intelligence and plays a role in many deep reinforcement learning models. However, little progress has been made in understanding when specific memory systems help more than others and how well they generalize.