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Pre-trained word embeddings for goal-conditional transfer learning in reinforcement learning

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Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms typically start tabula rasa, without any prior knowledge of the environment, and without any prior skills. This however often leads to low sample efficiency, requiring a large amount of interaction with the environment. This is especially true in a lifelong learning setting, in which the agent needs to continually extend its capabilities. In this paper, we examine how a pre-trained task-independent language model can make a goal-conditional RL agent more sample efficient. We do this by facilitating transfer learning between different related tasks. We experimentally demonstrate our approach on a set of object navigation tasks.
Book: Language in Reinforcement Learning Workshop at ICML 2020, the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, 18 July, 2020, Vienna Austria
Pages: 1 - 6
Publication year:2020
Accessibility:Open