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Allison Tam

3 accepted papers

2023

The Edge of Orthogonality: A Simple View of What Makes BYOL Tick

ICML 2023poster

Self-predictive unsupervised learning methods such as BYOL or SimSIAM have shown impressive results, and counter-intuitively, do not collapse to trivial representations. In this work, we aim at exploring the simplest possible mathematical arguments towards explaining the underlying mechanisms behind…

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2022

Semantic Exploration from Language Abstractions and Pretrained Representations

NeurIPS 2022accept

Effective exploration is a challenge in reinforcement learning (RL). Novelty-based exploration methods can suffer in high-dimensional state spaces, such as continuous partially-observable 3D environments. We address this challenge by defining novelty using semantically meaningful state abstractions,…

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2022

Tell me why! Explanations support learning relational and causal structure

ICML 2022spotlight

Inferring the abstract relational and causal structure of the world is a major challenge for reinforcement-learning (RL) agents. For humans, language{—}particularly in the form of explanations{—}plays a considerable role in overcoming this challenge. Here, we show that language can play a similar ro…