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Robust Reinforcement Learning aims to find the optimal policy with some extent of robustness to environmental dynamics. Existing learning algorithms usually enable the robustness through disturbing the current state or simulating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Linfang Hou , Liang Pang , Xin Hong , Yanyan Lan , Zhiming Ma , Dawei Yin

In principle, meta-reinforcement learning algorithms leverage experience across many tasks to learn fast reinforcement learning (RL) strategies that transfer to similar tasks. However, current meta-RL approaches rely on manually-defined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Allan Jabri , Kyle Hsu , Ben Eysenbach , Abhishek Gupta , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Imitation Learning (IL) enables agents to mimic expert behavior by learning from demonstrations. However, traditional IL methods require large amounts of medium-to-high-quality demonstrations as well as actions of expert demonstrations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Siqi Yang , Kai Yan , Alexander G. Schwing , Yu-Xiong Wang

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn an optimal policy from a static dataset, making it particularly valuable in scenarios where data collection is costly, such as robotics. A major challenge in offline RL is distributional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Motoki Omura , Yusuke Mukuta , Kazuki Ota , Takayuki Osa , Tatsuya Harada

Reinforcement learning offers the promise of automating the acquisition of complex behavioral skills. However, compared to commonly used and well-understood supervised learning methods, reinforcement learning algorithms can be brittle,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Aviral Kumar , Xue Bin Peng , Sergey Levine

Imitation Learning (IL) methods seek to match the behavior of an agent with that of an expert. In the present work, we propose a new IL method based on a conceptually simple algorithm: Primal Wasserstein Imitation Learning (PWIL), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Robert Dadashi , Léonard Hussenot , Matthieu Geist , Olivier Pietquin

The generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) has provided an adversarial learning framework for imitating expert policy from demonstrations in high-dimensional continuous tasks. However, almost all GAIL and its extensions only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Ming Zhang , Yawei Wang , Xiaoteng Ma , Li Xia , Jun Yang , Zhiheng Li , Xiu Li

Visual navigation is a task of training an embodied agent by intelligently navigating to a target object (e.g., television) using only visual observations. A key challenge for current deep reinforcement learning models lies in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Juncheng Li , Xin Wang , Siliang Tang , Haizhou Shi , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang , William Yang Wang

The goal of Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning (URL) is to find a reward-agnostic prior policy on a task domain, such that the sample-efficiency on supervised downstream tasks is improved. Although agents initialized with such a prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Frederik Schubert , Carolin Benjamins , Sebastian Döhler , Bodo Rosenhahn , Marius Lindauer

Every living organism struggles against disruptive environmental forces to carve out and maintain an orderly niche. We propose that such a struggle to achieve and preserve order might offer a principle for the emergence of useful behaviors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Glen Berseth , Daniel Geng , Coline Devin , Nicholas Rhinehart , Chelsea Finn , Dinesh Jayaraman , Sergey Levine

Pre-training Reinforcement Learning agents in a task-agnostic manner has shown promising results. However, previous works still struggle in learning and discovering meaningful skills in high-dimensional state-spaces, such as pixel-spaces.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Juan José Nieto , Roger Creus , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Articulated object manipulation is a challenging task, requiring constrained motion and adaptive control to handle the unknown dynamics of the manipulated objects. While reinforcement learning (RL) has been widely employed to tackle various…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yujin Kim , Sol Choi , Bum-Jae You , Keunwoo Jang , Yisoo Lee

In reinforcement learning, we typically refer to unsupervised pre-training when we aim to pre-train a policy without a priori access to the task specification, i.e. rewards, to be later employed for efficient learning of downstream tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Riccardo Zamboni , Mirco Mutti , Marcello Restelli

Reinforcement learning (RL) promises to enable autonomous acquisition of complex behaviors for diverse agents. However, the success of current reinforcement learning algorithms is predicated on an often under-emphasised requirement -- each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Archit Sharma , Abhishek Gupta , Sergey Levine , Karol Hausman , Chelsea Finn

Traditionally, reinforcement learning methods predict the next action based on the current state. However, in many situations, directly applying actions to control systems or robots is dangerous and may lead to unexpected behaviors because…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Nan Lin , Yuxuan Li , Yujun Zhu , Ruolin Wang , Xiayu Zhang , Jianmin Ji , Keke Tang , Xiaoping Chen , Xinming Zhang

Unsupervised reinforcement learning (URL) aims to pre-train agents by exploring diverse states or skills in reward-free environments, facilitating efficient adaptation to downstream tasks. As the agent cannot access extrinsic rewards during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Chengyang Ying , Huayu Chen , Xinning Zhou , Zhongkai Hao , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Deep neural networks coupled with fast simulation and improved computation have led to recent successes in the field of reinforcement learning (RL). However, most current RL-based approaches fail to generalize since: (a) the gap between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Lerrel Pinto , James Davidson , Rahul Sukthankar , Abhinav Gupta

Offline-to-online reinforcement learning (RL), a framework that trains a policy with offline RL and then further fine-tunes it with online RL, has been considered a promising recipe for data-driven decision-making. While sensible, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Junsu Kim , Seohong Park , Sergey Levine

Sequential decision making algorithms often struggle to leverage different sources of unstructured offline interaction data. Imitation learning (IL) methods based on supervised learning are robust, but require optimal demonstrations, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Joey Hejna , Jensen Gao , Dorsa Sadigh

Unsupervised Skill Discovery (USD) aims to autonomously learn a diverse set of skills without relying on extrinsic rewards. One of the most common USD approaches is to maximize the Mutual Information (MI) between skill latent variables and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Seyed Mohammad Hadi Hosseini , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah