Summary of Exploration by Learning Diverse Skills Through Successor State Measures, By Paul-antoine Le Tolguenec et al.
Exploration by Learning Diverse Skills through Successor State Measures
by Paul-Antoine Le Tolguenec, Yann Besse, Florent Teichteil-Konigsbuch, Dennis G. Wilson, Emmanuel Rachelson
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: 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 proposed LEADS framework aims to construct a set of diverse skills that uniformly cover the state space, enabling agents to explore effectively. Building on previous work, the authors formalize the search for diverse skills using mutual information between states and skills. They leverage the successor state measure to maximize the difference between skill distributions conditioned on each policy. The LEADS approach is demonstrated on maze navigation and robotic control tasks, showcasing its ability to construct a diverse set of skills that exhaustively cover the state space without relying on rewards or exploration bonuses. The results highlight the benefits of combining mutual information maximization and exploration bonuses for more robust and efficient exploration. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The research aims to help artificial agents learn new skills by exploring their environment. To achieve this, the authors develop a method called LEADS that creates a set of diverse skills that cover all possibilities in the environment. They test this approach on simple tasks like navigating mazes and controlling robots, showing that it’s effective at teaching the agent new skills without needing extra rewards or encouragement to explore. This is important because it could lead to more efficient learning and better decision-making for these agents. |
