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Non-uniform goal selection has the potential to improve the reinforcement learning (RL) of skills over uniform-random selection. In this paper, we introduce a method for learning a goal-selection policy in intrinsically-motivated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Erik M. Lintunen , Nadia M. Ady , Christian Guckelsberger

In Reinforcement Learning (RL), an agent explores the environment and collects trajectories into the memory buffer for later learning. However, the collected trajectories can easily be imbalanced with respect to the achieved goal states.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Rui Zhao , Volker Tresp

We study the problem of unsupervised skill discovery, whose goal is to learn a set of diverse and useful skills with no external reward. There have been a number of skill discovery methods based on maximizing the mutual information (MI)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Seohong Park , Jongwook Choi , Jaekyeom Kim , Honglak Lee , Gunhee Kim

The complexity of designing reward functions has been a major obstacle to the wide application of deep reinforcement learning (RL) techniques. Describing an agent's desired behaviors and properties can be difficult, even for experts. A new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Wanqi Xue , Bo An , Shuicheng Yan , Zhongwen Xu

Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) has emerged as a promising approach for learning behaviors from human feedback without predefined reward functions. However, current PbRL methods face a critical challenge in effectively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Brahim Driss , Alex Davey , Riad Akrour

One of the key capabilities of intelligent agents is the ability to discover useful skills without external supervision. However, the current unsupervised skill discovery methods are often limited to acquiring simple, easy-to-learn skills…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Seohong Park , Kimin Lee , Youngwoon Lee , Pieter Abbeel

In the absence of external rewards, agents can still learn useful behaviors by identifying and mastering a set of diverse skills within their environment. Existing skill learning methods use mutual information objectives to incentivize each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Kate Baumli , David Warde-Farley , Steven Hansen , Volodymyr Mnih

Learning control policies to perform complex robotics tasks from human preference data presents significant challenges. On the one hand, the complexity of such tasks typically requires learning policies to perform a variety of subtasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Utsav Singh , Souradip Chakraborty , Wesley A. Suttle , Brian M. Sadler , Vinay P Namboodiri , Amrit Singh Bedi

Preference-based Reinforcement Learning (PbRL) enables policy learning through simple queries comparing trajectories from a single policy. While human responses to these queries make it possible to learn policies aligned with human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yuki Kadokawa , Jonas Frey , Takahiro Miki , Takamitsu Matsubara , Marco Hutter

Finding different solutions to the same problem is a key aspect of intelligence associated with creativity and adaptation to novel situations. In reinforcement learning, a set of diverse policies can be useful for exploration, transfer,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Tom Zahavy , Brendan O'Donoghue , Andre Barreto , Volodymyr Mnih , Sebastian Flennerhag , Satinder Singh

Despite many successful applications of data-driven control in robotics, extracting meaningful diverse behaviors remains a challenge. Typically, task performance needs to be compromised in order to achieve diversity. In many scenarios, task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Jin Cheng , Marin Vlastelica , Pavel Kolev , Chenhao Li , Georg Martius

In reinforcement learning, unsupervised skill discovery aims to learn diverse skills without extrinsic rewards. Previous methods discover skills by maximizing the mutual information (MI) between states and skills. However, such an MI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Rushuai Yang , Chenjia Bai , Hongyi Guo , Siyuan Li , Bin Zhao , Zhen Wang , Peng Liu , Xuelong Li

Self-supervised skill learning aims to acquire useful behaviors that leverage the underlying dynamics of the environment. Latent variable models, based on mutual information maximization, have been successful in this task but still struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 David Emukpere , Bingbing Wu , Julien Perez , Jean-Michel Renders

This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible. Unsupervised skill discovery seeks to acquire different useful skills…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xin Liu , Yaran Chen , Dongbin Zhao

The exploration problem is one of the main challenges in deep reinforcement learning (RL). Recent promising works tried to handle the problem with population-based methods, which collect samples with diverse behaviors derived from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiajun Fan , Yuzheng Zhuang , Yuecheng Liu , Jianye Hao , Bin Wang , Jiangcheng Zhu , Hao Wang , Shu-Tao Xia

Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning has shown considerable potential in robotic manipulation; however, existing approaches remain limited by their reliance on prioritizing collected experience, resulting in suboptimal performance across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xuerui Wang , Guangyu Ren , Tianhong Dai , Bintao Hu , Shuangyao Huang , Wenzhang Zhang , Hengyan Liu

Skills are essential for unlocking higher levels of problem solving. A common approach to discovering these skills is to learn ones that reliably reach different states, thus empowering the agent to control its environment. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jonathan Colaço Carr , Qinyi Sun , Cameron Allen

Data generation and labeling are often expensive in robot learning. Preference-based learning is a concept that enables reliable labeling by querying users with preference questions. Active querying methods are commonly employed in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Erdem Bıyık , Nima Anari , Dorsa Sadigh

Many currently deployed Reinforcement Learning agents work in an environment shared with humans, be them co-workers, users or clients. It is desirable that these agents adjust to people's preferences, learn faster thanks to their help, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Hélène Plisnier , Denis Steckelmacher , Tim Brys , Diederik M. Roijers , Ann Nowé

Recently, methods for learning diverse skills to generate various behaviors without external rewards have been actively studied as a form of unsupervised reinforcement learning. However, most of the existing methods learn a finite number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Takahisa Imagawa , Takuya Hiraoka , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka
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