6 accepted papers
While reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved great success in acquiring complex skills solely from environmental interactions, it assumes that resets to the initial state are readily available at the end of each episode. Such an assumption hinders the autonomous learning of embodied agents due to…
Deep reinforcement learning has enabled robots to learn motor skills from environmental interactions with minimal to no prior knowledge. However, existing reinforcement learning algorithms assume an episodic setting, in which the agent resets to a fixed initial state distribution at the end of each
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) has made notable progress in complex control tasks by leveraging temporal abstraction. However, previous HRL algorithms often suffer from serious data inefficiency as environments get large. The extended components, $i.e.$, goal space and length of episodes,…
Current reinforcement learning (RL) in robotics often experiences difficulty in generalizing to new downstream tasks due to the innate task-specific training paradigm. To alleviate it, unsupervised RL, a framework that pre-trains the agent in a task-agnostic manner without access to the task-specifi
Deep neural networks facilitate visuosensory inputs for robotic systems. However, the features encoded in a network without specific constraints have little physical meaning. In this research, we add constraints on the network so that the trained features are forced to represent the actual twist coo
Applying deep reinforcement learning to physical systems, as opposed to learning in simulation, presents additional challenges in terms of sample efficiency and safety. Collecting large amounts of hardware demonstration data is time-consuming and the exploratory behavior of reinforcement learning al…