Summary of Digic: Domain Generalizable Imitation Learning by Causal Discovery, By Yang Chen et al.
DIGIC: Domain Generalizable Imitation Learning by Causal Discovery
by Yang Chen, Yitao Liang, Zhouchen Lin
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Methodology (stat.ME)
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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 combines causality with machine learning to produce robust representations for domain generalization, aiming to overcome the limitations of existing methods. The proposed DIGIC framework identifies causal features by finding the direct cause of expert actions from demonstration data distribution via causal discovery. This approach can achieve domain generalizable imitation learning using single-domain data and serves as a complement to cross-domain variation-based methods under non-structural assumptions on underlying causal models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper uses machine learning to help robots learn new tasks by looking at how humans do things. Usually, this requires lots of examples from different situations, which can be hard or impossible to get. The researchers came up with a new way to figure out what makes an action work in one situation and apply it to another. They call it DIGIC. It looks at the data on how experts did something and finds the underlying reasons why they chose certain actions. This helps robots learn faster and better, even when there isn’t much data available. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Domain generalization * Machine learning
