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Is Bang-Bang Control All You Need? Solving Continuous Control with Bernoulli Policies
Tim Seyde, Igor Gilitschenski, Wilko Schwarting +4
Reinforcement learning (RL) for continuous control typically employs distributions whose support covers the entire action space. In this work, we investigate the colloquially known…
Beyond Pick-and-Place: Tackling Robotic Stacking of Diverse Shapes
Alex X. Lee, Coline Devin, Yuxiang Zhou +18
We study the problem of robotic stacking with objects of complex geometry. We propose a challenging and diverse set of such objects that was carefully designed to require strategie…
Evaluating model-based planning and planner amortization for continuous control
Arunkumar Byravan, Leonard Hasenclever, Piotr Trochim +8
There is a widespread intuition that model-based control methods should be able to surpass the data efficiency of model-free approaches. In this paper we attempt to evaluate this i…
Is Curiosity All You Need? On the Utility of Emergent Behaviours from Curious Exploration
Oliver Groth, Markus Wulfmeier, Giulia Vezzani +5
Curiosity-based reward schemes can present powerful exploration mechanisms which facilitate the discovery of solutions for complex, sparse or long-horizon tasks. However, as the ag…
Collect & Infer -- a fresh look at data-efficient Reinforcement Learning
Martin Riedmiller, Jost Tobias Springenberg, Roland Hafner +1
This position paper proposes a fresh look at Reinforcement Learning (RL) from the perspective of data-efficiency. Data-efficient RL has gone through three major stages: pure on-lin…
Decoupled Exploration and Exploitation Policies for Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning
William F. Whitney, Michael Bloesch, Jost Tobias Springenberg +3
Despite the close connection between exploration and sample efficiency, most state of the art reinforcement learning algorithms include no considerations for exploration beyond max…