Summary of Learning Versatile Skills with Curriculum Masking, by Yao Tang et al.
Learning Versatile Skills with Curriculum Masking
by Yao Tang, Zhihui Xie, Zichuan Lin, Deheng Ye, Shuai Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 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 This research paper proposes a novel pretraining paradigm called CurrMask for sequential decision making in offline reinforcement learning (RL). Masked prediction has been shown to be a promising approach, but it remains unclear how to balance the learning of skills at different levels of complexity. To address this, the authors design CurrMask as a curriculum masking pretraining paradigm that adjusts its masking scheme during pretraining for learning versatile skills. The proposed approach is evaluated through extensive experiments on various tasks, including skill prompting, goal-conditioned planning, and offline RL. The results show that CurrMask achieves superior zero-shot performance on these tasks and competitive fine-tuning performance on offline RL tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary CurrMask is a new way to train machines to make good decisions. Right now, there are different ways to do this, but they don’t always work well together. This research paper tries to fix that by creating a special kind of training that helps machines learn how to do things at different levels of difficulty. The idea is based on how humans learn – we start with simple things and then move on to more complex ones. The researchers tested their approach and found that it works really well for certain tasks, like giving machines instructions or planning what to do in a situation. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Pretraining » Prompting » Reinforcement learning » Zero shot
