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The benefit of multi-task learning over single-task learning relies on the ability to use relations across tasks to improve performance on any single task. While sharing representations is an important mechanism to share information across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Shagun Sodhani , Amy Zhang , Joelle Pineau

Transfer learning is fundamental for addressing problems in settings with little training data. While several transfer learning approaches have been proposed in 3D, unfortunately, these solutions typically operate on an entire 3D object or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Souhaib Attaiki , Lei Li , Maks Ovsjanikov

This paper presents a data-efficient approach to learning transferable forward models for robotic push manipulation. Our approach extends our previous work on contact-based predictors by leveraging information on the pushed object's local…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Jochen Stüber , Marek Kopicki , Claudio Zito

Transfer Learning (TL) has shown great potential to accelerate Reinforcement Learning (RL) by leveraging prior knowledge from past learned policies of relevant tasks. Existing transfer approaches either explicitly computes the similarity…

A major challenge in reinforcement learning (RL) is the design of agents that are able to generalize across tasks that share common dynamics. A viable solution is meta-reinforcement learning, which identifies common structures among past…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Sephora Madjiheurem , Laura Toni

We propose a simple, practical, and intuitive approach for domain adaptation in reinforcement learning. Our approach stems from the idea that the agent's experience in the source domain should look similar to its experience in the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Benjamin Eysenbach , Swapnil Asawa , Shreyas Chaudhari , Sergey Levine , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Transfer learning refers to the transfer of knowledge or information from a relevant source task to a target task. However, most existing works assume both tasks are sampled from a stationary task distribution, thereby leading to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Jun Wu , Jingrui He

The options framework in reinforcement learning models the notion of a skill or a temporally extended sequence of actions. The discovery of a reusable set of skills has typically entailed building options, that navigate to bottleneck…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Rahul Ramesh , Manan Tomar , Balaraman Ravindran

While reinforcement learning has achieved remarkable successes in several domains, its real-world application is limited due to many methods failing to generalise to unfamiliar conditions. In this work, we consider the problem of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Michael Beukman , Devon Jarvis , Richard Klein , Steven James , Benjamin Rosman

As the application space of language models continues to evolve, a natural question to ask is how we can quickly adapt models to new tasks. We approach this classic question from a continual learning perspective, in which we aim to continue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Adam Fisch , Amal Rannen-Triki , Razvan Pascanu , Jörg Bornschein , Angeliki Lazaridou , Elena Gribovskaya , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Reinforcement learning has shown promise in learning policies that can solve complex problems. However, manually specifying a good reward function can be difficult, especially for intricate tasks. Inverse reinforcement learning offers a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Peter Henderson , Wei-Di Chang , Pierre-Luc Bacon , David Meger , Joelle Pineau , Doina Precup

Order dispatch is one of the central problems to ride-sharing platforms. Recently, value-based reinforcement learning algorithms have shown promising performance on this problem. However, in real-world applications, the non-stationarity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Runzhe Wan , Sheng Zhang , Chengchun Shi , Shikai Luo , Rui Song

Many modern learning tasks require models that can take inputs of varying sizes. Consequently, dimension-independent architectures have been proposed for domains where the inputs are graphs, sets, and point clouds. Recent work on graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Eitan Levin , Yuxin Ma , Mateo Díaz , Soledad Villar

Transfer and adaptation to new unknown environmental dynamics is a key challenge for reinforcement learning (RL). An even greater challenge is performing near-optimally in a single attempt at test time, possibly without access to dense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Jiachen Yang , Brenden Petersen , Hongyuan Zha , Daniel Faissol

Continual learning of a stream of tasks is an active area in deep neural networks. The main challenge investigated has been the phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting or interference of newly acquired knowledge with knowledge from previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Diana Benavides-Prado , Patricia Riddle

It has been established that diverse behaviors spanning the controllable subspace of an Markov decision process can be trained by rewarding a policy for being distinguishable from other policies \citep{gregor2016variational,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Steven Hansen , Will Dabney , Andre Barreto , Tom Van de Wiele , David Warde-Farley , Volodymyr Mnih

The successor representation (SR) provides a powerful framework for decoupling predictive dynamics from rewards, enabling rapid generalisation across reward configurations. However, the classical SR is limited by its inherent policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Changmin Yu , Máté Lengyel

Transfer reinforcement learning aims to derive a near-optimal policy for a target environment with limited data by leveraging abundant data from related source domains. However, it faces two key challenges: the lack of performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chi Zhang , Ziying Jia , George K. Atia , Sihong He , Yue Wang

Transfer learning can be applied in deep reinforcement learning to accelerate the training of a policy in a target task by transferring knowledge from a policy learned in a related source task. This is commonly achieved by copying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Joseph Campbell , Yue Guo , Fiona Xie , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara

Meta reinforcement learning (meta-RL) aims to learn a policy solving a set of training tasks simultaneously and quickly adapting to new tasks. It requires massive amounts of data drawn from training tasks to infer the common structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yijie Guo , Qiucheng Wu , Honglak Lee