Summary of Text-aware Diffusion For Policy Learning, by Calvin Luo et al.
Text-Aware Diffusion for Policy Learning
by Calvin Luo, Mandy He, Zilai Zeng, Chen Sun
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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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 Text-Aware Diffusion for Policy Learning (TADPoLe) tackles the challenge of designing reward functions for novel goals or behaviors in reinforcement learning. By leveraging a pretrained, frozen text-conditioned diffusion model, TADPoLe computes dense zero-shot reward signals for text-aligned policy learning. This approach hypothesizes that large-scale generative models encode rich priors that can supervise policies to behave not only text-alignedly but also naturally. Experimental results demonstrate TADPoLe’s ability to learn policies for novel goal-achievement and continuous locomotion behaviors specified by natural language in Humanoid and Dog environments, zero-shot without ground-truth rewards or expert demonstrations. Furthermore, TADPoLe performs competitively when applied to robotic manipulation tasks in the Meta-World environment, without access to any in-domain demonstrations. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary TADPoLe is a new way to help computers learn how to do things we want them to do. Right now, it’s hard to teach computers new skills because we have to create special rewards for them to get. TADPoLe makes it easier by using a powerful language model that can understand what we want the computer to do. This lets the computer learn new skills without needing any expert help or special rewards. The results show that TADPoLe is good at teaching computers to do things like move around and pick up objects, all without any human guidance. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Diffusion * Diffusion model * Language model * Reinforcement learning * Zero shot
