Summary of Boosting Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Meta-learning For Complex Task Adaptation, by Arash Khajooeinejad et al.
Boosting Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Meta-Learning for Complex Task Adaptation
by Arash Khajooeinejad, Fatemeh Sadat Masoumi, Masoumeh Chapariniya
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Oct 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 proposed method integrates meta-learning into Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) to enable efficient exploration and quick adaptation. This approach leverages prior experience through gradient-based meta-learning with differentiable inner-loop updates, optimizing performance across a curriculum of challenging tasks. The agent employs a high-level policy to choose among multiple low-level policies within custom-designed grid environments, driven by intrinsic motivation mechanisms that reward the discovery of novel states. Experimental results show that this metalearning-enhanced hierarchical agent outperforms standard HRL approaches, achieving faster learning, greater cumulative rewards, and higher success rates in complex scenarios. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper uses a new way to help machines learn and adapt to new tasks by combining different ideas. It’s like breaking down a big problem into smaller ones and then using what you learned from those smaller problems to solve the bigger one. The method is tested in special computer environments called grid worlds, and it does better than other methods that don’t use this combination of ideas. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Meta learning » Reinforcement learning
