Summary of Reverse Forward Curriculum Learning For Extreme Sample and Demonstration Efficiency in Reinforcement Learning, by Stone Tao et al.
Reverse Forward Curriculum Learning for Extreme Sample and Demonstration Efficiency in Reinforcement Learning
by Stone Tao, Arth Shukla, Tse-kai Chan, Hao Su
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel approach to reinforcement learning (RL) by combining a reverse curriculum with a forward curriculum. The method, called RFCL, leverages multiple demonstrations via state resets to efficiently learn policies from sparse rewards. The reverse curriculum initializes the policy on a narrow state distribution and helps overcome exploration problems, while the forward curriculum accelerates training to perform well on the full initial state distribution. Experimental results show significant improvements in demonstration and sample efficiency compared to state-of-the-art baselines, even solving previously unsolvable tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper uses a new way of learning called reinforcement learning (RL) that helps robots learn from examples instead of trial and error. This method is very useful for complex tasks like robotics, where it’s hard to get good examples. The researchers developed a new approach called RFCL, which uses two steps: first, they make the robot learn by resetting its state many times, and then they fine-tune the learning using more examples. They tested their method on various tasks and found that it works much better than other methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Reinforcement learning
