Invariant causal prediction for block mdps

A Zhang, C Lyle, S Sodhani, A Filos… - International …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Generalization across environments is critical to the successful application of reinforcement
learning (RL) algorithms to real-world challenges. In this work we propose a method for …

Reinforcement learning with vision-proprioception model for robot planar pushing

L Cong, H Liang, P Ruppel, Y Shi, M Görner… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We propose a vision-proprioception model for planar object pushing, efficiently integrating
all necessary information from the environment. A Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is used to …

Robust asymmetric learning in pomdps

A Warrington, JW Lavington, A Scibior… - International …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Policies for partially observed Markov decision processes can be efficiently learned by
imitating expert policies generated using asymmetric information. Unfortunately, existing …

TWIST: Teacher-Student World Model Distillation for Efficient Sim-to-Real Transfer

J Yamada, M Rigter, J Collins… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Model-based RL is a promising approach for real-world robotics due to its improved sample
efficiency and generalization capabilities compared to model-free RL. However, effective …

Equivariant Data Augmentation for Generalization in Offline Reinforcement Learning

C Pinneri, S Bechtle, M Wulfmeier, A Byravan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We present a novel approach to address the challenge of generalization in offline
reinforcement learning (RL), where the agent learns from a fixed dataset without any …

A novel simulation-reality closed-loop learning framework for autonomous robot skill learning

R Jiang, B He, Z Wang, Y Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, data-driven learning methods have been widely studied for autonomous
robot skill learning. However, these methods rely on large amounts of robot–environment …

Foundations for Transfer in Reinforcement Learning: A Taxonomy of Knowledge Modalities

M Wulfmeier, A Byravan, S Bechtle, K Hausman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Contemporary artificial intelligence systems exhibit rapidly growing abilities accompanied by
the growth of required resources, expansive datasets and corresponding investments into …

Modeling Human Behavior Part I--Learning and Belief Approaches

A Fuchs, A Passarella, M Conti - arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.06485, 2022 - arxiv.org
There is a clear desire to model and comprehend human behavior. Trends in research
covering this topic show a clear assumption that many view human reasoning as the …

Privileged information dropout in reinforcement learning

PA Kamienny, K Arulkumaran, F Behbahani… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Using privileged information during training can improve the sample efficiency and
performance of machine learning systems. This paradigm has been applied to reinforcement …

Privileged Sensing Scaffolds Reinforcement Learning

ES Hu, J Springer, O Rybkin, D Jayaraman - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We need to look at our shoelaces as we first learn to tie them but having mastered this skill,
can do it from touch alone. We call this phenomenon" sensory scaffolding": observation …