Variational Dynamic for Self-Supervised Exploration in Deep Reinforcement Learning
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| author | Bai, Chenjia Liu, Peng Liu, Kaiyu Wang, Lingxiao Zhao, Yingnan Han, Lei |
| author_facet | Bai, Chenjia Liu, Peng Liu, Kaiyu Wang, Lingxiao Zhao, Yingnan Han, Lei |
| contents | Efficient exploration remains a challenging problem in reinforcement learning, especially for tasks where extrinsic rewards from environments are sparse or even totally disregarded. Significant advances based on intrinsic motivation show promising results in simple environments but often get stuck in environments with multimodal and stochastic dynamics. In this work, we propose a variational dynamic model based on the conditional variational inference to model the multimodality and stochasticity. We consider the environmental state-action transition as a conditional generative process by generating the next-state prediction under the condition of the current state, action, and latent variable, which provides a better understanding of the dynamics and leads a better performance in exploration. We derive an upper bound of the negative log-likelihood of the environmental transition and use such an upper bound as the intrinsic reward for exploration, which allows the agent to learn skills by self-supervised exploration without observing extrinsic rewards. We evaluate the proposed method on several image-based simulation tasks and a real robotic manipulating task. Our method outperforms several state-of-the-art environment model-based exploration approaches. |
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| spellingShingle | Variational Dynamic for Self-Supervised Exploration in Deep Reinforcement Learning Bai, Chenjia Liu, Peng Liu, Kaiyu Wang, Lingxiao Zhao, Yingnan Han, Lei Machine Learning Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Robotics Efficient exploration remains a challenging problem in reinforcement learning, especially for tasks where extrinsic rewards from environments are sparse or even totally disregarded. Significant advances based on intrinsic motivation show promising results in simple environments but often get stuck in environments with multimodal and stochastic dynamics. In this work, we propose a variational dynamic model based on the conditional variational inference to model the multimodality and stochasticity. We consider the environmental state-action transition as a conditional generative process by generating the next-state prediction under the condition of the current state, action, and latent variable, which provides a better understanding of the dynamics and leads a better performance in exploration. We derive an upper bound of the negative log-likelihood of the environmental transition and use such an upper bound as the intrinsic reward for exploration, which allows the agent to learn skills by self-supervised exploration without observing extrinsic rewards. We evaluate the proposed method on several image-based simulation tasks and a real robotic manipulating task. Our method outperforms several state-of-the-art environment model-based exploration approaches. |
| title | Variational Dynamic for Self-Supervised Exploration in Deep Reinforcement Learning |
| topic | Machine Learning Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08755 |