Summary of Overcoming Knowledge Barriers: Online Imitation Learning From Observation with Pretrained World Models, by Xingyuan Zhang et al.
Overcoming Knowledge Barriers: Online Imitation Learning from Observation with Pretrained World Models
by Xingyuan Zhang, Philip Becker-Ehmck, Patrick van der Smagt, Maximilian Karl
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Apr 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 This paper investigates the application of pretraining and finetuning from Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing to decision-making in Imitation Learning from Observation with pretrained models. The authors identify two major knowledge barriers, the Embodiment Knowledge Barrier (EKB) and the Demonstration Knowledge Barrier (DKB), which greatly limit the performance of existing approaches like BCO and AIME. They propose a solution, AIME-v2, which incorporates an online interaction mechanism with a data-driven regularizer to alleviate the EKB and a surrogate reward function to mitigate the DKB. Experimental results on tasks from the DeepMind Control Suite and Meta-World benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of these modifications in improving both sample-efficiency and converged performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how we can use pretraining and finetuning to help machines make better decisions. Right now, many approaches are limited by two big problems: they don’t understand things they haven’t seen before (Embodiment Knowledge Barrier), and they’re only good at doing things they’ve been shown how to do (Demonstration Knowledge Barrier). The authors propose a new approach called AIME-v2 that tries to solve these problems. It works by having the machine learn from its own experiences and adjust its behavior based on what it’s seen before. The results show that this approach is much better than previous ones at making good decisions quickly and accurately. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Natural language processing » Pretraining
