Henaff, M;
Raileanu, R;
Jiang, M;
Rocktäschel, T;
(2022)
Exploration via Elliptical Episodic Bonuses.
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.
NeurIPS
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Abstract
In recent years, a number of reinforcement learning (RL) methods have been proposed to explore complex environments which differ across episodes. In this work, we show that the effectiveness of these methods critically relies on a count-based episodic term in their exploration bonus. As a result, despite their success in relatively simple, noise-free settings, these methods fall short in more realistic scenarios where the state space is vast and prone to noise. To address this limitation, we introduce Exploration via Elliptical Episodic Bonuses (E3B), a new method which extends count-based episodic bonuses to continuous state spaces and encourages an agent to explore states that are diverse under a learned embedding within each episode. The embedding is learned using an inverse dynamics model in order to capture controllable aspects of the environment. Our method sets a new state-of-the-art across 16 challenging tasks from the MiniHack suite, without requiring task-specific inductive biases. E3B also matches existing methods on sparse reward, pixel-based Vizdoom environments, and outperforms existing methods in reward-free exploration on Habitat, demonstrating that it can scale to high-dimensional pixel-based observations and realistic environments.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Exploration via Elliptical Episodic Bonuses |
| Event: | 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781713871088 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10173689 |
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