Beyond Surprise: Improving Exploration Through Surprise Novelty
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| author | Le, Hung Do, Kien Nguyen, Dung Venkatesh, Svetha |
| author_facet | Le, Hung Do, Kien Nguyen, Dung Venkatesh, Svetha |
| contents | We present a new computing model for intrinsic rewards in reinforcement learning that addresses the limitations of existing surprise-driven explorations. The reward is the novelty of the surprise rather than the surprise norm. We estimate the surprise novelty as retrieval errors of a memory network wherein the memory stores and reconstructs surprises. Our surprise memory (SM) augments the capability of surprise-based intrinsic motivators, maintaining the agent's interest in exciting exploration while reducing unwanted attraction to unpredictable or noisy observations. Our experiments demonstrate that the SM combined with various surprise predictors exhibits efficient exploring behaviors and significantly boosts the final performance in sparse reward environments, including Noisy-TV, navigation and challenging Atari games. |
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| publishDate | 2023 |
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| spellingShingle | Beyond Surprise: Improving Exploration Through Surprise Novelty Le, Hung Do, Kien Nguyen, Dung Venkatesh, Svetha Machine Learning We present a new computing model for intrinsic rewards in reinforcement learning that addresses the limitations of existing surprise-driven explorations. The reward is the novelty of the surprise rather than the surprise norm. We estimate the surprise novelty as retrieval errors of a memory network wherein the memory stores and reconstructs surprises. Our surprise memory (SM) augments the capability of surprise-based intrinsic motivators, maintaining the agent's interest in exciting exploration while reducing unwanted attraction to unpredictable or noisy observations. Our experiments demonstrate that the SM combined with various surprise predictors exhibits efficient exploring behaviors and significantly boosts the final performance in sparse reward environments, including Noisy-TV, navigation and challenging Atari games. |
| title | Beyond Surprise: Improving Exploration Through Surprise Novelty |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04836 |