Summary of Pre-trained Visual Dynamics Representations For Efficient Policy Learning, by Hao Luo et al.
Pre-trained Visual Dynamics Representations for Efficient Policy Learning
by Hao Luo, Bohan Zhou, Zongqing Lu
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Nov 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 The proposed Pre-trained Visual Dynamics Representations (PVDR) method bridges the domain gap between video data and downstream reinforcement learning (RL) tasks, enabling efficient policy learning. By adopting video prediction as a pre-training task, PVDR learns visual dynamics representations using a Transformer-based Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE). This abstract prior knowledge can be adapted to downstream tasks and aligned with executable actions through online adaptation. The authors conduct experiments on robotics visual control tasks and verify that PVDR is an effective form for pre-training with videos. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary PVDR helps RL by using video data as a valuable resource. The problem is that video data doesn’t have action annotations, which makes it hard to use. To solve this, the researchers propose PVDR, which learns from videos and then adapts to downstream tasks. They use a special kind of AI model called CVAE to learn from videos and predict what might happen next. This helps RL learn faster and better. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Reinforcement learning » Transformer » Variational autoencoder
