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most citedDecision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling

465 citations · 1.5k across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.LG2022★ 10 cited

In-context Reinforcement Learning with Algorithm Distillation

Michael Laskin, Luyu Wang, Junhyuk Oh +11

We propose Algorithm Distillation (AD), a method for distilling reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms into neural networks by modeling their training histories with a causal seque…

cs.LG2022★ 12 cited

CIC: Contrastive Intrinsic Control for Unsupervised Skill Discovery

Michael Laskin, Hao Liu, Xue Bin Peng +3

We introduce Contrastive Intrinsic Control (CIC), an algorithm for unsupervised skill discovery that maximizes the mutual information between state-transitions and latent skill vec…

cs.LG2022★ 21 cited

Don't Change the Algorithm, Change the Data: Exploratory Data for Offline Reinforcement Learning

Denis Yarats, David Brandfonbrener, Hao Liu +4

Recent progress in deep learning has relied on access to large and diverse datasets. Such data-driven progress has been less evident in offline reinforcement learning (RL), because…

cs.LG2021★ 11 cited

URLB: Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning Benchmark

Michael Laskin, Denis Yarats, Hao Liu +6

Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm to solve a range of complex yet specific control tasks. Yet training generalist agents that can quickly adapt to…

cs.LG2021★ 7 cited

Skill Preferences: Learning to Extract and Execute Robotic Skills from Human Feedback

Xiaofei Wang, Kimin Lee, Kourosh Hakhamaneshi +2

A promising approach to solving challenging long-horizon tasks has been to extract behavior priors (skills) by fitting generative models to large offline datasets of demonstrations…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

Hierarchical Few-Shot Imitation with Skill Transition Models

Kourosh Hakhamaneshi, Ruihan Zhao, Albert Zhan +2

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 show…

cs.LG2021★ 465 cited

Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling

Lili Chen, Kevin Lu, Aravind Rajeswaran +6

We introduce a framework that abstracts Reinforcement Learning (RL) as a sequence modeling problem. This allows us to draw upon the simplicity and scalability of the Transformer ar…

cs.LG2021★ 9 cited

Behavioral Priors and Dynamics Models: Improving Performance and Domain Transfer in Offline RL

Catherine Cang, Aravind Rajeswaran, Pieter Abbeel +1

Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims to extract near-optimal policies from imperfect offline data without additional environment interactions. Extracting policies from diverse…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Reinforcement Learning with Latent Flow

Wenling Shang, Xiaofei Wang, Aravind Srinivas +4

Temporal information is essential to learning effective policies with Reinforcement Learning (RL). However, current state-of-the-art RL algorithms either assume that such informati…

cs.RO2020★ 14 cited

Learning Visual Robotic Control Efficiently with Contrastive Pre-training and Data Augmentation

Albert Zhan, Ruihan Zhao, Lerrel Pinto +2

Recent advances in unsupervised representation learning significantly improved the sample efficiency of training Reinforcement Learning policies in simulated environments. However,…

cs.LG2020★ 9 cited

Parallel Training of Deep Networks with Local Updates

Michael Laskin, Luke Metz, Seth Nabarro +5

Deep learning models trained on large data sets have been widely successful in both vision and language domains. As state-of-the-art deep learning architectures have continued to g…

cs.LG2020★ 66 cited

Decoupling Representation Learning from Reinforcement Learning

Adam Stooke, Kimin Lee, Pieter Abbeel +1

In an effort to overcome limitations of reward-driven feature learning in deep reinforcement learning (RL) from images, we propose decoupling representation learning from policy le…

cs.LG2020★ 46 cited

SUNRISE: A Simple Unified Framework for Ensemble Learning in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Kimin Lee, Michael Laskin, Aravind Srinivas +1

Off-policy deep reinforcement learning (RL) has been successful in a range of challenging domains. However, standard off-policy RL algorithms can suffer from several issues, such a…

cs.LG2020★ 243 cited

Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Data

Michael Laskin, Kimin Lee, Adam Stooke +3

Learning from visual observations is a fundamental yet challenging problem in Reinforcement Learning (RL). Although algorithmic advances combined with convolutional neural networks…

cs.LG2020★ 215 cited

CURL: Contrastive Unsupervised Representations for Reinforcement Learning

Aravind Srinivas, Michael Laskin, Pieter Abbeel

We present CURL: Contrastive Unsupervised Representations for Reinforcement Learning. CURL extracts high-level features from raw pixels using contrastive learning and performs off-…

cs.LG2020★ 18 cited

Sparse Graphical Memory for Robust Planning

Scott Emmons, Ajay Jain, Michael Laskin +3

To operate effectively in the real world, agents should be able to act from high-dimensional raw sensory input such as images and achieve diverse goals across long time-horizons. C…

cs.OH2020

Roof Age Determination for the Automated Site-Selection of Rooftop Solar

Chris Heinrich, Michael Laskin, Simas Glinskis +1

Rooftop solar is one of the most promising tools for drawing down greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and is cost-competitive with fossil fuels in many areas of the world today. One of…

cond-mat.str-el2016★ 54 cited

Emergent Conformal Symmetry of Quantum Hall States on Singular surfaces

M. Laskin, Y. H. Chiu, T. Can +1

We show that quantum Hall states on surfaces with conical singularities behave as conformal primaries near the singular points, with a conformal dimension controlled by the gravita…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 35 cited

Collective Field Theory for Quantum Hall States

M. Laskin, T. Can, P. Wiegmann

We develop a collective field theory for fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states. We show that in the leading approximation for a large number of particles, the properties of Laughlin…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 79 cited

Geometry of Quantum Hall States: Gravitational Anomaly and Kinetic Coefficients

T. Can, M. Laskin, P. Wiegmann

We show that universal transport coefficients of the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) can be understood as a response to variations of spatial geometry. Some transport propert…

cond-mat.str-el2014★ 146 cited

Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in a Curved Space: Gravitational Anomaly and Electromagnetic Response

T. Can, M. Laskin, P. Wiegmann

We develop a general method to compute correlation functions of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states on a curved space. In a curved space, local transformation properties of FQH st…