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Unsupervised Environment Design (UED) has emerged as a promising approach to developing general-purpose agents through automated curriculum generation. Popular UED methods focus on Open-Endedness, where teacher algorithms rely on stochastic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Dexun Li , Sidney Tio , Pradeep Varakantham

Unsupervised Environment Design (UED) is a paradigm for automatically generating a curriculum of training environments, enabling agents trained in these environments to develop general capabilities, i.e., achieving good zero-shot transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Dexun Li , Pradeep Varakantham

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents may successfully generalize to new settings if trained on an appropriately diverse set of environment and task configurations. Unsupervised Environment Design (UED) is a promising self-supervised RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Minqi Jiang , Michael Dennis , Jack Parker-Holder , Jakob Foerster , Edward Grefenstette , Tim Rocktäschel

For reinforcement learning agents to be deployed in high-risk settings, they must achieve a high level of robustness to unfamiliar scenarios. One method for improving robustness is unsupervised environment design (UED), a suite of methods…

A wide range of reinforcement learning (RL) problems - including robustness, transfer learning, unsupervised RL, and emergent complexity - require specifying a distribution of tasks or environments in which a policy will be trained.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Michael Dennis , Natasha Jaques , Eugene Vinitsky , Alexandre Bayen , Stuart Russell , Andrew Critch , Sergey Levine

Training agents that are robust to environmental changes remains a significant challenge in deep reinforcement learning (RL). Unsupervised environment design (UED) has recently emerged to address this issue by generating a set of training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Hojun Chung , Junseo Lee , Minsoo Kim , Dohyeong Kim , Songhwai Oh

Open-ended learning methods that automatically generate a curriculum of increasingly challenging tasks serve as a promising avenue toward generally capable reinforcement learning agents. Existing methods adapt curricula independently over…

A key challenge in training generally-capable agents is the design of training tasks that facilitate broad generalization and robustness to environment variations. This challenge motivates the problem setting of Unsupervised Environment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Ishita Mediratta , Minqi Jiang , Jack Parker-Holder , Michael Dennis , Eugene Vinitsky , Tim Rocktäschel

Training general agents to follow complex instructions (tasks) in intricate environments (levels) remains a core challenge in reinforcement learning. Random sampling of task-level pairs often produces unsolvable combinations, highlighting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Daniel Furelos-Blanco , Charles Pert , Frederik Kelbel , Alex F. Spies , Alessandra Russo , Michael Dennis

Agent decision making using Reinforcement Learning (RL) heavily relies on either a model or simulator of the environment (e.g., moving in an 8x8 maze with three rooms, playing Chess on an 8x8 board). Due to this dependence, small changes in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Wenjun Li , Pradeep Varakantham , Dexun Li

Automated design of multi-agent interactions with desirable equilibrium outcomes is inherently difficult due to the computational hardness, non-uniqueness, and instability of the resulting equilibria. In this work, we propose the use of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Vinzenz Thoma , Georgios Piliouras , Luke Marris

Unsupervised Environment Design (UED) formalizes the problem of autocurricula through interactive training between a teacher agent and a student agent. The teacher generates new training environments with high learning potential, curating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jayden Teoh , Wenjun Li , Pradeep Varakantham

We introduce Unsupervised Partner Design (UPD) - a population-free, multi-agent reinforcement learning framework for robust ad-hoc teamwork that adaptively generates training partners without requiring pretrained partners or manual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Constantin Ruhdorfer , Matteo Bortoletto , Victor Oei , Anna Penzkofer , Andreas Bulling

Unsupervised Environment Design (UED) offers a promising paradigm for improving reinforcement learning generalization by adaptively shaping training environments, but it requires reliable environment evaluation to remain effective. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Fang Yuan , Quanjun Yin , Siqi Shen , Yuxiang Xie , Junqiang Yang , Long Qin , Junjie Zeng , Qinglun Li

Autonomous agents trained using deep reinforcement learning (RL) often lack the ability to successfully generalise to new environments, even when these environments share characteristics with the ones they have encountered during training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Samuel Garcin , James Doran , Shangmin Guo , Christopher G. Lucas , Stefano V. Albrecht

Generalizing deep reinforcement learning agents to unseen environments remains a significant challenge. One promising solution is Unsupervised Environment Design (UED), a co-evolutionary framework in which a teacher adaptively generates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Geonwoo Cho , Jaegyun Im , Jihwan Lee , Hojun Yi , Sejin Kim , Sundong Kim

Ensembling a neural network is a widely recognized approach to enhance model performance, estimate uncertainty, and improve robustness in deep supervised learning. However, deep ensembles often come with high computational costs and memory…

This paper introduces a reinforcement learning framework that enables controllable and diverse player behaviors without relying on human gameplay data. Existing approaches often require large-scale player trajectories, train separate models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Atahan Cilan , Atay Özgövde

Quality-Diversity algorithms provide efficient mechanisms to generate large collections of diverse and high-performing solutions, which have shown to be instrumental for solving downstream tasks. However, most of those algorithms rely on a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Luca Grillotti , Antoine Cully

Experience replay is widely used to improve learning efficiency in reinforcement learning by leveraging past experiences. However, existing experience replay methods, whether based on uniform or prioritized sampling, often suffer from low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Kaiyan Zhao , Yiming Wang , Yuyang Chen , Yan Li , Leong Hou U , Xiaoguang Niu
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