Automatic Environment Shaping is the Next Frontier in RL
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| author | Park, Younghyo Margolis, Gabriel B. Agrawal, Pulkit |
| author_facet | Park, Younghyo Margolis, Gabriel B. Agrawal, Pulkit |
| contents | Many roboticists dream of presenting a robot with a task in the evening and returning the next morning to find the robot capable of solving the task. What is preventing us from achieving this? Sim-to-real reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved impressive performance on challenging robotics tasks, but requires substantial human effort to set up the task in a way that is amenable to RL. It's our position that algorithmic improvements in policy optimization and other ideas should be guided towards resolving the primary bottleneck of shaping the training environment, i.e., designing observations, actions, rewards and simulation dynamics. Most practitioners don't tune the RL algorithm, but other environment parameters to obtain a desirable controller. We posit that scaling RL to diverse robotic tasks will only be achieved if the community focuses on automating environment shaping procedures. |
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| spellingShingle | Automatic Environment Shaping is the Next Frontier in RL Park, Younghyo Margolis, Gabriel B. Agrawal, Pulkit Robotics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Many roboticists dream of presenting a robot with a task in the evening and returning the next morning to find the robot capable of solving the task. What is preventing us from achieving this? Sim-to-real reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved impressive performance on challenging robotics tasks, but requires substantial human effort to set up the task in a way that is amenable to RL. It's our position that algorithmic improvements in policy optimization and other ideas should be guided towards resolving the primary bottleneck of shaping the training environment, i.e., designing observations, actions, rewards and simulation dynamics. Most practitioners don't tune the RL algorithm, but other environment parameters to obtain a desirable controller. We posit that scaling RL to diverse robotic tasks will only be achieved if the community focuses on automating environment shaping procedures. |
| title | Automatic Environment Shaping is the Next Frontier in RL |
| topic | Robotics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16186 |