Curriculum learning for reinforcement learning domains: A framework and survey

S Narvekar, B Peng, M Leonetti, J Sinapov… - Journal of Machine …, 2020 - jmlr.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a popular paradigm for addressing sequential decision tasks
in which the agent has only limited environmental feedback. Despite many advances over …

Jump-start reinforcement learning

I Uchendu, T **ao, Y Lu, B Zhu, M Yan… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a theoretical framework for continuously improving an
agent's behavior via trial and error. However, efficiently learning policies from scratch can be …

Learning navigation behaviors end-to-end with autorl

HTL Chiang, A Faust, M Fiser… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We learn end-to-end point-to-point and pathfollowing navigation behaviors that avoid
moving obstacles. These policies receive noisy lidar observations and output robot linear …

Automatic curriculum learning for deep rl: A short survey

R Portelas, C Colas, L Weng, K Hofmann… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Automatic Curriculum Learning (ACL) has become a cornerstone of recent successes in
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). These methods shape the learning trajectories of …

Hamilton-jacobi reachability in reinforcement learning: A survey

M Ganai, S Gao, S Herbert - IEEE Open Journal of Control …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent literature has proposed approaches that learn control policies with high performance
while maintaining safety guarantees. Synthesizing Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachable sets has …

Automated reinforcement learning: An overview

RR Afshar, Y Zhang, J Vanschoren… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement Learning and recently Deep Reinforcement Learning are popular methods
for solving sequential decision making problems modeled as Markov Decision Processes …

Variational automatic curriculum learning for sparse-reward cooperative multi-agent problems

J Chen, Y Zhang, Y Xu, H Ma, H Yang… - Advances in …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We introduce an automatic curriculum algorithm, Variational Automatic Curriculum Learning
(VACL), for solving challenging goal-conditioned cooperative multi-agent reinforcement …

Understanding the complexity gains of single-task rl with a curriculum

Q Li, Y Zhai, Y Ma, S Levine - International Conference on …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Reinforcement learning (RL) problems can be challenging without well-shaped rewards.
Prior work on provably efficient RL methods generally proposes to address this issue with …

Competitive experience replay

H Liu, A Trott, R Socher, C **ong - arxiv preprint arxiv:1902.00528, 2019 - arxiv.org
Deep learning has achieved remarkable successes in solving challenging reinforcement
learning (RL) problems when dense reward function is provided. However, in sparse reward …

Evolving rewards to automate reinforcement learning

A Faust, A Francis, D Mehta - arxiv preprint arxiv:1905.07628, 2019 - arxiv.org
Many continuous control tasks have easily formulated objectives, yet using them directly as
a reward in reinforcement learning (RL) leads to suboptimal policies. Therefore, many …