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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

Equivariant neural networks, whose hidden features transform according to representations of a group G acting on the data, exhibit training efficiency and an improved generalisation performance. In this work, we extend group invariant and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Robin Winter , Marco Bertolini , Tuan Le , Frank Noé , Djork-Arné Clevert

Conventionally, model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) aims to learn a global model for the dynamics of the environment. A good model can potentially enable planning algorithms to generate a large variety of behaviors and solve diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Archit Sharma , Shixiang Gu , Sergey Levine , Vikash Kumar , Karol Hausman

Exploration efficiency poses a significant challenge in goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) tasks, particularly those with long horizons and sparse rewards. A primary limitation to exploration efficiency is the agent's inability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Lisheng Wu , Ke Chen

Unsupervised reinforcement learning aims to train agents to learn a handful of policies or skills in environments without external reward. These pre-trained policies can accelerate learning when endowed with external reward, and can also be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Shuncheng He , Yuhang Jiang , Hongchang Zhang , Jianzhun Shao , Xiangyang Ji

Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims to discover diverse behaviors that can accelerate the learning of downstream tasks. Previous methods typically focus on entropy-based exploration or empowerment-driven skill learning. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ting Xiao , Jiakun Zheng , Rushuai Yang , Kang Xu , Qiaosheng Zhang , Peng Liu , Chenjia Bai

Learning skills that interact with objects is of major importance for robotic manipulation. These skills can indeed serve as an efficient prior for solving various manipulation tasks. We propose a novel Skill Learning approach that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Paul Jansonnie , Bingbing Wu , Julien Perez , Jan Peters

Unsupervised skill discovery drives intelligent agents to explore the unknown environment without task-specific reward signal, and the agents acquire various skills which may be useful when the agents adapt to new tasks. In this paper, we…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Shuncheng He , Jianzhun Shao , Xiangyang Ji

A desirable property of autonomous agents is the ability to both solve long-horizon problems and generalize to unseen tasks. Recent advances in data-driven skill learning have shown that extracting behavioral priors from offline data can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Kourosh Hakhamaneshi , Ruihan Zhao , Albert Zhan , Pieter Abbeel , Michael Laskin

Pattern discovery is a machine learning technique that aims to find sets of items, subsequences, or substructures that are present in a dataset with a higher frequency value than a manually set threshold. This process helps to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Daniel Gómez-Bravo , Aaron García , Guillermo Vigueras , Belén Ríos , Alejandro Rodríguez-González

Self-supervised learning is a popular and powerful method for utilizing large amounts of unlabeled data, for which a wide variety of training objectives have been proposed in the literature. In this study, we perform a Bayesian analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Emanuele Sansone , Robin Manhaeve

We introduce GEDI, a Bayesian framework that combines existing self-supervised learning objectives with likelihood-based generative models. This framework leverages the benefits of both GEnerative and DIscriminative approaches, resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Emanuele Sansone , Robin Manhaeve

Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning (RL) provides a promising paradigm for learning useful behaviors via reward-free per-training. Existing methods for unsupervised RL mainly conduct empowerment-driven skill discovery or entropy-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Chenjia Bai , Rushuai Yang , Qiaosheng Zhang , Kang Xu , Yi Chen , Ting Xiao , Xuelong Li

One of the main challenges in the vision-based grasping is the selection of feasible grasp regions while interacting with novel objects. Recent approaches exploit the power of the convolutional neural network (CNN) to achieve accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Siddhartha Vibhu Pharswan , Mohit Vohra , Ashish Kumar , Laxmidhar Behera

In this work, we connect two distinct concepts for unsupervised domain adaptation: feature distribution alignment between domains by utilizing the task-specific decision boundary and the Wasserstein metric. Our proposed sliced Wasserstein…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Chen-Yu Lee , Tanmay Batra , Mohammad Haris Baig , Daniel Ulbricht

Finding local correspondences between images with different viewpoints requires local descriptors that are robust against geometric transformations. An approach for transformation invariance is to integrate out the transformations by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Yuan Liu , Zehong Shen , Zhixuan Lin , Sida Peng , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

Unsupervised reinforcement learning (URL) aims to learn general skills for unseen downstream tasks. Mutual Information Skill Learning (MISL) addresses URL by maximizing the mutual information between states and skills but lacks sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yucheng Yang , Tianyi Zhou , Qiang He , Lei Han , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Meng Fang

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

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

Scaling unsupervised skill discovery algorithms to high-DoF agents remains challenging. As dimensionality increases, the exploration space grows exponentially, while the manifold of meaningful skills remains limited. Therefore, semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Seungeun Rho , Aaron Trinh , Danfei Xu , Sehoon Ha