NBDI: A Simple and Effective Termination Condition for Skill Extraction from Task-Agnostic Demonstrations

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Auteurs principaux: Kim, Myunsoo, Lee, Hayeong, Shim, Seong-Woong, Seo, JunHo, Lee, Byung-Jun
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author Kim, Myunsoo
Lee, Hayeong
Shim, Seong-Woong
Seo, JunHo
Lee, Byung-Jun
author_facet Kim, Myunsoo
Lee, Hayeong
Shim, Seong-Woong
Seo, JunHo
Lee, Byung-Jun
contents Intelligent agents are able to make decisions based on different levels of granularity and duration. Recent advances in skill learning enabled the agent to solve complex, long-horizon tasks by effectively guiding the agent in choosing appropriate skills. However, the practice of using fixed-length skills can easily result in skipping valuable decision points, which ultimately limits the potential for further exploration and faster policy learning. In this work, we propose to learn a simple and effective termination condition that identifies decision points through a state-action novelty module that leverages agent experience data. Our approach, Novelty-based Decision Point Identification (NBDI), outperforms previous baselines in complex, long-horizon tasks, and remains effective even in the presence of significant variations in the environment configurations of downstream tasks, highlighting the importance of decision point identification in skill learning.
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spellingShingle NBDI: A Simple and Effective Termination Condition for Skill Extraction from Task-Agnostic Demonstrations
Kim, Myunsoo
Lee, Hayeong
Shim, Seong-Woong
Seo, JunHo
Lee, Byung-Jun
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent agents are able to make decisions based on different levels of granularity and duration. Recent advances in skill learning enabled the agent to solve complex, long-horizon tasks by effectively guiding the agent in choosing appropriate skills. However, the practice of using fixed-length skills can easily result in skipping valuable decision points, which ultimately limits the potential for further exploration and faster policy learning. In this work, we propose to learn a simple and effective termination condition that identifies decision points through a state-action novelty module that leverages agent experience data. Our approach, Novelty-based Decision Point Identification (NBDI), outperforms previous baselines in complex, long-horizon tasks, and remains effective even in the presence of significant variations in the environment configurations of downstream tasks, highlighting the importance of decision point identification in skill learning.
title NBDI: A Simple and Effective Termination Condition for Skill Extraction from Task-Agnostic Demonstrations
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12668