Summary of Mooss: Mask-enhanced Temporal Contrastive Learning For Smooth State Evolution in Visual Reinforcement Learning, by Jiarui Sun et al.
MOOSS: Mask-Enhanced Temporal Contrastive Learning for Smooth State Evolution in Visual Reinforcement Learning
by Jiarui Sun, M. Ugur Akcal, Wei Zhang, Girish Chowdhary
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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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 introduces MOOSS, a novel framework that improves sample efficiency in visual Reinforcement Learning (RL) by modeling the nuanced evolution of states. Previous methods have struggled with extracting informative state representations from high-dimensional pixel-based observations. To address this, MOOSS leverages a temporal contrastive objective and graph-based spatial-temporal masking to explicitly model state evolution. The framework consists of two components: graph construction for spatial-temporal masking and multi-level contrastive learning for enriching state representations. This approach advances our understanding of state dynamics by disrupting and learning from spatial-temporal correlations, facilitating policy learning. MOOSS outperforms previous state-of-the-art visual RL methods in terms of sample efficiency on multiple continuous and discrete control benchmarks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary MOOSS is a new way to help machines learn from images. When computers try to learn from pictures, it’s hard for them to understand what’s changing over time. MOOSS helps by looking at how things change between frames and using that information to make better decisions. This makes the learning process more efficient and accurate. The researchers tested MOOSS on various tasks and found that it works better than other methods in many cases. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Reinforcement learning
