Title
Intrinsic Motivation and Automatic Curricula via Asymmetric Self-Play.
Abstract
We describe a simple scheme that allows an agent to learn about its environment in an unsupervised manner. Our scheme pits two versions of the same agent, Alice and Bob, against one another. Alice proposes a task for Bob to complete; and then Bob attempts to complete the task. In this work we will focus on two kinds of environments: (nearly) reversible environments and environments that can be reset. Alice will "propose" the task by doing a sequence of actions and then Bob must undo or repeat them, respectively. Via an appropriate reward structure, Alice and Bob automatically generate a curriculum of exploration, enabling unsupervised training of the agent. When Bob is deployed on an RL task within the environment, this unsupervised training reduces the number of supervised episodes needed to learn, and in some cases converges to a higher reward.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
International Conference on Learning Representations
Intrinsic motivation,Undo,Alice and Bob,Computer science,Unsupervised learning,Curriculum,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning,Reinforcement learning
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
4
0.38
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sainbayar Sukhbaatar119211.61
Zeming Lin280.91
Ilya Kostrikov340.38
Gabriel Synnaeve424016.91
Arthur Szlam5105668.60
Robert Fergus611214735.18