10 papers
AI Research Preference Models
Thomas Simon Foster, Bassel Al Omari, Tingchen Fu +30
AI research agents (AIRA) can now carry machine learning experiments from proposal through implementation and evaluation. Yet progress on frontier tasks is throttled by the cost of…
Inverting the Bellman Equation: From -Values to World Models
Alistair Letcher, Mattie Fellows, Alexander D. Goldie +3
Model-based and model-free reinforcement learning are traditionally viewed as separate paradigms: instead of learning a model of the transition kernel , model-free agents typica…
Abstraction for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
Clarisse Wibault, Alexander Goldie, Antonio Villares +2
Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) often exhibit significant redundancy due to symmetries and shared structure across state-goal pairs in real-world Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Le…
DiscoGen: Procedural Generation of Algorithm Discovery Tasks in Machine Learning
Alexander D. Goldie, Zilin Wang, Adrian Hayler +17
Automating the development of machine learning algorithms has the potential to unlock new breakthroughs. However, our ability to improve and evaluate algorithm discovery systems ha…
Learning to Drive in New Cities Without Human Demonstrations
Zilin Wang, Saeed Rahmani, Daphne Cornelisse +4
While autonomous vehicles have achieved reliable performance within specific operating regions, their deployment to new cities remains costly and slow. A key bottleneck is the need…
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…
How Should We Meta-Learn Reinforcement Learning Algorithms?
Alexander David Goldie, Zilin Wang, Jaron Cohen +2
The process of meta-learning algorithms from data, instead of relying on manual design, is growing in popularity as a paradigm for improving the performance of machine learning sys…
An Optimisation Framework for Unsupervised Environment Design
Nathan Monette, Alistair Letcher, Michael Beukman +4
For reinforcement learning agents to be deployed in high-risk settings, they must achieve a high level of robustness to unfamiliar scenarios. One method for improving robustness is…
Adam on Local Time: Addressing Nonstationarity in RL with Relative Adam Timesteps
Benjamin Ellis, Matthew T. Jackson, Andrei Lupu +4
In reinforcement learning (RL), it is common to apply techniques used broadly in machine learning such as neural network function approximators and momentum-based optimizers. Howev…
Can Learned Optimization Make Reinforcement Learning Less Difficult?
Alexander David Goldie, Chris Lu, Matthew Thomas Jackson +2
While reinforcement learning (RL) holds great potential for decision making in the real world, it suffers from a number of unique difficulties which often need specific considerati…