Summary of Shared-unique Features and Task-aware Prioritized Sampling on Multi-task Reinforcement Learning, by Po-shao Lin et al.
Shared-unique Features and Task-aware Prioritized Sampling on Multi-task Reinforcement Learning
by Po-Shao Lin, Jia-Fong Yeh, Yi-Ting Chen, Winston H. Hsu
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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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 method, called STARS, addresses the performance imbalance issue in multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) tasks by introducing a shared-unique feature extractor and task-aware prioritized sampling. While current state-of-the-art methods excel on average, they struggle with poor performance on certain tasks. To mitigate this, STARS combines a shared-unique feature extractor that learns both shared and task-specific features, along with a task-aware sampling strategy that utilizes prioritized experience replay for efficient learning. Experimental results on the Meta-World benchmark demonstrate the effectiveness and stability of STARS, outperforming current SOTA methods and alleviating performance imbalance issues. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new method called STARS helps solve problems when doing multiple tasks at once in machine learning. Right now, the best methods are good on average, but do poorly on some specific tasks. To fix this, STARS combines two ideas: a special feature extractor that learns both shared and unique features, and a way to prioritize which experiences to use when learning. By using these techniques, STARS can learn more efficiently and does better than the current best methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Multi task » Reinforcement learning
