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Sumedh A Sontakke

3 accepted papers

2026

Value Explicit Pretraining for Learning Transferable Representations

RA-L 2026

Understanding visual inputs for a given task amidst varied changes is a key challenge posed by visual reinforcement learning agents. We propose <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Value Explicit Pretraining</i> (VEP), a method that learns

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2022

GalilAI: Out-of-Task Distribution Detection using Causal Active Experimentation for Safe Transfer RL

AISTATS 2022poster

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is a well-studied topic in supervised learning. Extending the successes in supervised learning methods to the reinforcement learning (RL) setting, however, is difficult due to the data generating process - RL agents actively query their environment for data and th…

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2021

Causal Curiosity: RL Agents Discovering Self-supervised Experiments for Causal Representation Learning

ICML 2021spotlight

Humans show an innate ability to learn the regularities of the world through interaction. By performing experiments in our environment, we are able to discern the causal factors of variation and infer how they affect the dynamics of our world. Analogously, here we attempt to equip reinforcement lear…

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