Approved by the Consultive Council and accepted for publication on September 18, 2005. * Work done at Discipline of Telemedicine, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (USP) São Paulo (SP), Brazil. 1 Dermatologist. Discipline of Telemedicine, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, (SP); Ph.D. Substitute Professor, Department of Dermatology and Radiothe...

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The main objective of transfer learning is to reuse knowledge acquired in a previous learned task, in order to enhance the learning procedure in a new and more complex task. Transfer learning comprises a suitable solution for speeding up the learning procedure in Reinforcement Learning tasks. In this work, we propose a novel method for transferring models to a hybrid reinforcement learning agen...

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