Summary of Behaviour Distillation, by Andrei Lupu et al.
Behaviour Distillation
by Andrei Lupu, Chris Lu, Jarek Liesen, Robert Tjarko Lange, Jakob Foerster
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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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 new approach to dataset distillation in reinforcement learning, which aims to condense large datasets into a small number of synthetic examples for training new models. The method, called Hallucinating Datasets with Evolution Strategies (HaDES), is capable of discovering and condensing the information required for training an expert policy into a synthetic dataset of state-action pairs without access to expert data. HaDES achieves competitive performance levels in continuous control tasks and generalizes well out of distribution to training policies with different architectures and hyperparameters. The paper also demonstrates application to downstream tasks, such as training multi-task agents in a zero-shot fashion. Additionally, the authors show that visualizing the synthetic datasets can provide human-interpretable task insights. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about making big computers learn from small amounts of data by creating fake examples. This helps with things like understanding how computers make decisions and finding new ways to train them. The main idea is called “behaviour distillation” which means taking the important information from a good computer program and turning it into a small set of fake data points. The paper shows that this method can help computers learn as well as before, even when they have different architectures and settings. It also works for things like training multiple tasks at once without needing more data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Distillation » Multi task » Reinforcement learning » Zero shot
