Summary of Context-former: Stitching Via Latent Conditioned Sequence Modeling, by Ziqi Zhang et al.
Context-Former: Stitching via Latent Conditioned Sequence Modeling
by Ziqi Zhang, Jingzehua Xu, Jinxin Liu, Zifeng Zhuang, Donglin Wang, Miao Liu, Shuai Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Jan 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 novel approach to offline reinforcement learning (RL), called ContextFormer, which integrates contextual information-based imitation learning (IL) and sequence modeling to stitch sub-optimal trajectory fragments. The authors argue that the Decision Transformer (DT) lacks stitching capacity, making it essential to incorporate this capability for improved performance. They demonstrate the effectiveness of their approach through extensive experiments on D4RL benchmarks under various IL settings, achieving competitive performance with traditional RL methods. Additionally, they compare ContextFormer with DT variants using identical training datasets, revealing its superiority in terms of performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about a new way to learn from data that doesn’t involve real-time interactions. It’s like learning a skill by watching others do it. The authors are trying to improve an existing approach called Decision Transformer (DT) by giving it the ability to “stitch” together suboptimal actions into better ones. They test their method on several benchmark tests and find that it outperforms other methods. This could have important implications for areas like robotics or autonomous vehicles, where learning from data is crucial. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Reinforcement learning * Transformer
