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Unsupervised Skill Discovery (USD) allows agents to autonomously learn diverse behaviors without task-specific rewards. While recent USD methods have shown promise, their application to real-world robotics remains underexplored. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Rafael Cathomen , Mayank Mittal , Marin Vlastelica , Marco Hutter

Unsupervised skill discovery carries the promise that an intelligent agent can learn reusable skills through autonomous, reward-free environment interaction. Existing unsupervised skill discovery methods learn skills by encouraging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zizhao Wang , Jiaheng Hu , Caleb Chuck , Stephen Chen , Roberto Martín-Martín , Amy Zhang , Scott Niekum , Peter Stone

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

A hallmark of intelligent agents is the ability to learn reusable skills purely from unsupervised interaction with the environment. However, existing unsupervised skill discovery methods often learn entangled skills where one skill variable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Jiaheng Hu , Zizhao Wang , Peter Stone , Roberto Martín-Martín

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

Learning meaningful behaviors in the absence of reward is a difficult problem in reinforcement learning. A desirable and challenging unsupervised objective is to learn a set of diverse skills that provide a thorough coverage of the state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Pierre-Alexandre Kamienny , Jean Tarbouriech , Sylvain Lamprier , Alessandro Lazaric , Ludovic Denoyer

In the field of unsupervised skill discovery (USD), a major challenge is limited exploration, primarily due to substantial penalties when skills deviate from their initial trajectories. To enhance exploration, recent methodologies employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Hyunseung Kim , Byungkun Lee , Hojoon Lee , Dongyoon Hwang , Sejik Park , Kyushik Min , Jaegul Choo

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 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

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

The ability to perform different skills can encourage agents to explore. In this work, we aim to construct a set of diverse skills which uniformly cover the state space. We propose a formalization of this search for diverse skills, building…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Paul-Antoine Le Tolguenec , Yann Besse , Florent Teichteil-Konigsbuch , Dennis G. Wilson , Emmanuel Rachelson

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

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

Unsupervised skill discovery in reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn diverse behaviors without relying on external rewards. However, current methods often overlook the periodic nature of learned skills, focusing instead on increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jonghae Park , Daesol Cho , Jusuk Lee , Dongseok Shim , Inkyu Jang , H. Jin Kim

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

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

Unsupervised skill discovery in Reinforcement Learning aims to mimic humans' ability to autonomously discover diverse behaviors. However, existing methods are often unconstrained, making it difficult to find useful skills, especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Maxence Hussonnois , Thommen George Karimpanal , Santu Rana

Skill discovery methods enable agents to learn diverse emergent behaviors without explicit rewards. To make learned skills useful for unknown downstream tasks, obtaining a semantically diverse repertoire of skills is essential. While some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Seungeun Rho , Laura Smith , Tianyu Li , Sergey Levine , Xue Bin Peng , Sehoon Ha

Learning skills in open-world environments is essential for developing agents capable of handling a variety of tasks by combining basic skills. Online demonstration videos are typically long but unsegmented, making them difficult to segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jingwen Deng , Zihao Wang , Shaofei Cai , Anji Liu , Yitao Liang

How can a reinforcement learning (RL) agent prepare to solve downstream tasks if those tasks are not known a priori? One approach is unsupervised skill discovery, a class of algorithms that learn a set of policies without access to a reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Benjamin Eysenbach , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Sergey Levine
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