Summary of Contrastive Diffuser: Planning Towards High Return States Via Contrastive Learning, by Yixiang Shan et al.
Contrastive Diffuser: Planning Towards High Return States via Contrastive Learning
by Yixiang Shan, Zhengbang Zhu, Ting Long, Qifan Liang, Yi Chang, Weinan Zhang, Liang Yin
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 Contrastive Diffuser (CDiffuser) method tackles the challenge of offline reinforcement learning (RL) in environments with large ratios of low-return trajectories. By grouping states into high-return and low-return categories, CDiffuser treats these as positive and negative samples, respectively. A contrast mechanism then pulls trajectories towards high-return states while pushing them away from low-return states, effectively utilizing even the low-return trajectories for policy learning. This approach is shown to improve offline RL performance across 14 D4RL benchmarks, demonstrating its effectiveness in real-world scenarios. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Offline reinforcement learning is a big problem! Imagine you’re trying to learn how to do something new, like riding a bike or playing chess, but most of the time you fail. That makes it hard to get better. The team behind CDiffuser came up with a clever way to use even the “bad” attempts to help them learn faster. They group the tries into two categories: ones that are good and ones that aren’t so good. Then they make the computer try to avoid the bad tries and focus on the good ones. This helps the computer get better at learning, which is important for making decisions in situations where you don’t know what will happen next. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Reinforcement learning
