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Shapechanger: Environments for Transfer Learning
Sébastien M. R. Arnold, Tsam Kiu Pun, Théo-Tim J. Denisart +1
We present Shapechanger, a library for transfer reinforcement learning specifically designed for robotic tasks. We consider three types of knowledge transfer---from simulation to s…
cs.LG2017
Accelerating SGD for Distributed Deep-Learning Using Approximated Hessian Matrix
Sébastien M. R. Arnold, Chunming Wang
We introduce a novel method to compute a rank approximation of the inverse of the Hessian matrix in the distributed regime. By leveraging the differences in gradients and param…