Continual Visual Reinforcement Learning with A Life-Long World Model

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Auteurs principaux: Pan, Minting, Zhang, Wendong, Chen, Geng, Zhu, Xiangming, Gao, Siyu, Wang, Yunbo, Yang, Xiaokang
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author Pan, Minting
Zhang, Wendong
Chen, Geng
Zhu, Xiangming
Gao, Siyu
Wang, Yunbo
Yang, Xiaokang
author_facet Pan, Minting
Zhang, Wendong
Chen, Geng
Zhu, Xiangming
Gao, Siyu
Wang, Yunbo
Yang, Xiaokang
contents Learning physical dynamics in a series of non-stationary environments is a challenging but essential task for model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) with visual inputs. It requires the agent to consistently adapt to novel tasks without forgetting previous knowledge. In this paper, we present a new continual learning approach for visual dynamics modeling and explore its efficacy in visual control. The key assumption is that an ideal world model can provide a non-forgetting environment simulator, which enables the agent to optimize the policy in a multi-task learning manner based on the imagined trajectories from the world model. To this end, we first introduce the life-long world model, which learns task-specific latent dynamics using a mixture of Gaussians and incorporates generative experience replay to mitigate catastrophic forgetting. Then, we further address the value estimation challenge for previous tasks with the exploratory-conservative behavior learning approach. Our model remarkably outperforms the straightforward combinations of existing continual learning and visual RL algorithms on DeepMind Control Suite and Meta-World benchmarks with continual visual control tasks.
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spellingShingle Continual Visual Reinforcement Learning with A Life-Long World Model
Pan, Minting
Zhang, Wendong
Chen, Geng
Zhu, Xiangming
Gao, Siyu
Wang, Yunbo
Yang, Xiaokang
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Learning physical dynamics in a series of non-stationary environments is a challenging but essential task for model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) with visual inputs. It requires the agent to consistently adapt to novel tasks without forgetting previous knowledge. In this paper, we present a new continual learning approach for visual dynamics modeling and explore its efficacy in visual control. The key assumption is that an ideal world model can provide a non-forgetting environment simulator, which enables the agent to optimize the policy in a multi-task learning manner based on the imagined trajectories from the world model. To this end, we first introduce the life-long world model, which learns task-specific latent dynamics using a mixture of Gaussians and incorporates generative experience replay to mitigate catastrophic forgetting. Then, we further address the value estimation challenge for previous tasks with the exploratory-conservative behavior learning approach. Our model remarkably outperforms the straightforward combinations of existing continual learning and visual RL algorithms on DeepMind Control Suite and Meta-World benchmarks with continual visual control tasks.
title Continual Visual Reinforcement Learning with A Life-Long World Model
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06572