Transfer Learning in Robotics: An Upcoming Breakthrough? A Review of Promises and Challenges

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Autores principales: Jaquier, Noémie, Welle, Michael C., Gams, Andrej, Yao, Kunpeng, Fichera, Bernardo, Billard, Aude, Ude, Aleš, Asfour, Tamim, Kragic, Danica
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author Jaquier, Noémie
Welle, Michael C.
Gams, Andrej
Yao, Kunpeng
Fichera, Bernardo
Billard, Aude
Ude, Aleš
Asfour, Tamim
Kragic, Danica
author_facet Jaquier, Noémie
Welle, Michael C.
Gams, Andrej
Yao, Kunpeng
Fichera, Bernardo
Billard, Aude
Ude, Aleš
Asfour, Tamim
Kragic, Danica
contents Transfer learning is a conceptually-enticing paradigm in pursuit of truly intelligent embodied agents. The core concept -- reusing prior knowledge to learn in and from novel situations -- is successfully leveraged by humans to handle novel situations. In recent years, transfer learning has received renewed interest from the community from different perspectives, including imitation learning, domain adaptation, and transfer of experience from simulation to the real world, among others. In this paper, we unify the concept of transfer learning in robotics and provide the first taxonomy of its kind considering the key concepts of robot, task, and environment. Through a review of the promises and challenges in the field, we identify the need of transferring at different abstraction levels, the need of quantifying the transfer gap and the quality of transfer, as well as the dangers of negative transfer. Via this position paper, we hope to channel the effort of the community towards the most significant roadblocks to realize the full potential of transfer learning in robotics.
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spellingShingle Transfer Learning in Robotics: An Upcoming Breakthrough? A Review of Promises and Challenges
Jaquier, Noémie
Welle, Michael C.
Gams, Andrej
Yao, Kunpeng
Fichera, Bernardo
Billard, Aude
Ude, Aleš
Asfour, Tamim
Kragic, Danica
Robotics
Machine Learning
Transfer learning is a conceptually-enticing paradigm in pursuit of truly intelligent embodied agents. The core concept -- reusing prior knowledge to learn in and from novel situations -- is successfully leveraged by humans to handle novel situations. In recent years, transfer learning has received renewed interest from the community from different perspectives, including imitation learning, domain adaptation, and transfer of experience from simulation to the real world, among others. In this paper, we unify the concept of transfer learning in robotics and provide the first taxonomy of its kind considering the key concepts of robot, task, and environment. Through a review of the promises and challenges in the field, we identify the need of transferring at different abstraction levels, the need of quantifying the transfer gap and the quality of transfer, as well as the dangers of negative transfer. Via this position paper, we hope to channel the effort of the community towards the most significant roadblocks to realize the full potential of transfer learning in robotics.
title Transfer Learning in Robotics: An Upcoming Breakthrough? A Review of Promises and Challenges
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18044