6 papers
Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale
Bidipta Sarkar, Mattie Fellows, Juan Agustin Duque +17
Evolution Strategies (ES) is a class of powerful black-box optimisation methods that are highly parallelisable and can handle non-differentiable and noisy objectives. However, naïv…
Imagined Autocurricula
Ahmet H. Güzel, Matthew Thomas Jackson, Jarek Luca Liesen +4
Training agents to act in embodied environments typically requires vast training data or access to accurate simulation, neither of which exists for many cases in the real world. In…
A Clean Slate for Offline Reinforcement Learning
Matthew Thomas Jackson, Uljad Berdica, Jarek Liesen +2
Progress in offline reinforcement learning (RL) has been impeded by ambiguous problem definitions and entangled algorithmic designs, resulting in inconsistent implementations, insu…
NAVIX: Scaling MiniGrid Environments with JAX
Eduardo Pignatelli, Jarek Liesen, Robert Tjarko Lange +3
As Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) research moves towards solving large-scale worlds, efficient environment simulations become crucial for rapid experimentation. However, mos…
Behaviour Distillation
Andrei Lupu, Chris Lu, Jarek Liesen +2
Dataset distillation aims to condense large datasets into a small number of synthetic examples that can be used as drop-in replacements when training new models. It has application…
Discovering Minimal Reinforcement Learning Environments
Jarek Liesen, Chris Lu, Andrei Lupu +3
Reinforcement learning (RL) agents are commonly trained and evaluated in the same environment. In contrast, humans often train in a specialized environment before being evaluated,…