Summary of Open the Black Box: Step-based Policy Updates For Temporally-correlated Episodic Reinforcement Learning, by Ge Li et al.
Open the Black Box: Step-based Policy Updates for Temporally-Correlated Episodic Reinforcement Learning
by Ge Li, Hongyi Zhou, Dominik Roth, Serge Thilges, Fabian Otto, Rudolf Lioutikov, Gerhard Neumann
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- 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 This paper introduces a novel algorithm for Episodic Reinforcement Learning (ERL), called Temporally-Correlated Episodic RL (TCE). The goal is to improve the exploration-exploitation trade-off in ERL by leveraging temporal correlations between actions, while maintaining data efficiency. TCE builds upon step-based policies and episodic updates, allowing for more efficient exploration and smoother trajectories. By combining the strengths of both approaches, TCE achieves comparable performance to recent ERL methods, with a significant improvement in data efficiency. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Reinforcement learning is like training a robot to do tasks. Usually, we teach robots one step at a time, telling them what to do based on what they see. But this can be inefficient and make the robot move in awkward ways. Episodic reinforcement learning tries to fix this by thinking about the robot’s actions over time. This approach is good, but it often ignores important details about the robot’s movements. The new algorithm, called TCE, solves this problem by using information from individual steps while still exploring in parameter space. This makes the algorithm more efficient and helps the robot move smoothly. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Reinforcement learning
