Summary of Curling the Dream: Contrastive Representations For World Modeling in Reinforcement Learning, by Victor Augusto Kich et al.
CURLing the Dream: Contrastive Representations for World Modeling in Reinforcement Learning
by Victor Augusto Kich, Jair Augusto Bottega, Raul Steinmetz, Ricardo Bedin Grando, Ayano Yorozu, Akihisa Ohya
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Aug 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 Curled-Dreamer, a novel reinforcement learning algorithm, combines contrastive learning with the DreamerV3 framework to improve visual reinforcement learning tasks. The algorithm integrates the contrastive loss from CURL and a reconstruction loss from an autoencoder, achieving significant improvements in DeepMind Control Suite tasks. Experiments show that Curled-Dreamer outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms, accelerating learning while enhancing policy robustness. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Curled-Dreamer is a new way to do machine learning. It helps computers learn faster and better by combining different ideas. This makes it good at solving problems with pictures or videos. The people who made Curled-Dreamer tested it on many tasks and it did well. It learned quickly and did things correctly, even when the problem was hard. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoencoder » Contrastive loss » Machine learning » Reinforcement learning
