Summary of Sample Efficient Myopic Exploration Through Multitask Reinforcement Learning with Diverse Tasks, by Ziping Xu et al.
Sample Efficient Myopic Exploration Through Multitask Reinforcement Learning with Diverse Tasks
by Ziping Xu, Zifan Xu, Runxuan Jiang, Peter Stone, Ambuj Tewari
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- 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 paper explores the benefits of Multitask Reinforcement Learning (MTRL) in improving exploration efficiency. While MTRL has been successful in various tasks, its theoretical foundations have overlooked the importance of exploration. The authors propose a policy-sharing algorithm with myopic exploration that can be sample-efficient when trained on diverse sets of tasks. This approach is demonstrated to be effective in synthetic robotic control environments, where task diversity aligns with automatic curriculum learning. The results show that MTRL can improve sample-efficiency and shed light on the success of myopic exploration in practice. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary MTRL is a way for machines to learn from doing many tasks at once. It’s like how humans learn new skills by trying different things. But, until now, nobody has studied why this approach works so well. The researchers found that when an AI learns many tasks simultaneously, it can use an old exploration method (myopic) that was thought to be inefficient. They tested this idea on pretend robotic control environments and showed that MTRL makes learning more efficient. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Curriculum learning * Reinforcement learning
