Summary of Policy-guided Diffusion, by Matthew Thomas Jackson et al.
Policy-Guided Diffusion
by Matthew Thomas Jackson, Michael Tryfan Matthews, Cong Lu, Benjamin Ellis, Shimon Whiteson, Jakob Foerster
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO)
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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 proposes policy-guided diffusion as an alternative solution for learning from offline datasets in real-world settings where agents must learn from a behavior policy that differs from the target policy. Autoregressive world models generate synthetic on-policy experience, but truncated rollouts are necessary to avoid compounding error. The proposed method uses diffusion models to generate entire trajectories under the behavior distribution, guided by the target policy. This results in plausible trajectories with high target policy probability and lower dynamics error than an offline world model baseline. The approach demonstrates significant improvements in performance across various standard offline reinforcement learning algorithms and environments when using synthetic experience as a substitute for real data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps solve a big problem in machine learning, where we need to learn from old data that was collected by someone else’s rules. This is like trying to learn how to play tennis by watching videos of other people playing. To make this work, the researchers came up with a new way to generate synthetic training data that looks more realistic and helps the model learn better. They call it policy-guided diffusion, and it uses a special type of model to create fake experience that’s closer to what we would see if we were playing tennis ourselves. This means we can use this fake data to train our models, which makes them work much better in real-world situations. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Autoregressive * Diffusion * Machine learning * Probability * Reinforcement learning
