A survey on deep reinforcement learning algorithms for robotic manipulation

D Han, B Mulyana, V Stankovic, S Cheng - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Robotic manipulation challenges, such as grasping and object manipulation, have been
tackled successfully with the help of deep reinforcement learning systems. We give an …

Curriculum learning: A survey

P Soviany, RT Ionescu, P Rota, N Sebe - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Training machine learning models in a meaningful order, from the easy samples to the hard
ones, using curriculum learning can provide performance improvements over the standard …

Automatic curriculum learning for deep rl: A short survey

R Portelas, C Colas, L Weng, K Hofmann… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Automatic Curriculum Learning (ACL) has become a cornerstone of recent successes in
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). These methods shape the learning trajectories of …

Curriculum-guided hindsight experience replay

M Fang, T Zhou, Y Du, L Han… - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In off-policy deep reinforcement learning, it is usually hard to collect sufficient successful
experiences with sparse rewards to learn from. Hindsight experience replay (HER) enables …

Solving robotic manipulation with sparse reward reinforcement learning via graph-based diversity and proximity

Z Bing, H Zhou, R Li, X Su, FO Morin… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In multigoal reinforcement learning (RL), algorithms usually suffer from inefficiency in the
collection of successful experiences in tasks with sparse rewards. By utilizing the ideas of …

Extending the capabilities of reinforcement learning through curriculum: A review of methods and applications

K Gupta, D Mukherjee, H Najjaran - SN Computer Science, 2022 - Springer
Reinforcement learning has long been advertised as the one with the capability to
intelligently mimic and understand human learning and behavior. While the upshot of the …

Combining curriculum learning and knowledge distillation for dialogue generation

Q Zhu, X Chen, P Wu, JF Liu… - Findings of the Association …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Curriculum learning, a machine training strategy that feeds training instances to the model
from easy to hard, has been proven to facilitate the dialogue generation task. Meanwhile …

A conceptual framework for externally-influenced agents: An assisted reinforcement learning review

A Bignold, F Cruz, ME Taylor, T Brys, R Dazeley… - Journal of Ambient …, 2023 - Springer
A long-term goal of reinforcement learning agents is to be able to perform tasks in complex
real-world scenarios. The use of external information is one way of scaling agents to more …

From semantics to execution: Integrating action planning with reinforcement learning for robotic causal problem-solving

M Eppe, PDH Nguyen, S Wermter - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Reinforcement learning is generally accepted to be an appropriate and successful method
to learn robot control. Symbolic action planning is useful to resolve causal dependencies …

Curriculum reinforcement learning from avoiding collisions to navigating among movable obstacles in diverse environments

HC Wang, SC Huang, PJ Huang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Curriculum learning has proven highly effective to speed up training convergence with
improved performance in a variety of tasks. Researchers have been studying how a …