Title
Graph Networks as Learnable Physics Engines for Inference and Control.
Abstract
Understanding and interacting with everyday physical scenes requires rich knowledge about the structure of the world, represented either implicitly in a value or policy function, or explicitly in a transition model. Here we introduce a new class of learnable models--based on graph networks--which implement an inductive bias for object- and relation-centric representations of complex, dynamical systems. Our results show that as a forward model, our approach supports accurate predictions from real and simulated data, and surprisingly strong and efficient generalization, across eight distinct physical systems which we varied parametrically and structurally. We also found that our inference model can perform system identification. Our models are also differentiable, and support online planning via gradient-based trajectory optimization, as well as offline policy optimization. Our framework offers new opportunities for harnessing and exploiting rich knowledge about the world, and takes a key step toward building machines with more human-like representations of the world.
Year
Venue
DocType
2018
ICML
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1806.01242
23
0.69
References 
Authors
27
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez11036.21
Nicolas Heess2176294.77
Jost Tobias Springenberg3112662.86
Josh S. Merel414311.34
Martin Riedmiller55655366.29
R. Hadsell61678100.80
Peter Battaglia744222.63