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Thomas Lampe

Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess

Mel Vecerik

Martin Riedmiller

Timothy Paul Lillicrap

Gabriel Barth-Maron

Roland Hafner

Ivaylo Popov

Jonathan Karl Scholz

Bilal Piot

Thomas Rothoerl

Olivier Claude Pietquin

Todd Andrew Hester

Konstantinos Bousmalis

Wang Fumin

Yusuf Aytar

Rae Chan Jeong

Yuxiang Zhou

Jacqueline Ok-chan Kay

Francesco Nori

David Khosid

Olivier Pietquin

Matej Vecerik

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a policy neural network for use in controlling a real-world agent in a real-world environment. One of the methods includes training the policy neural network by optimizing a first task-specific objective that measures a performance of the policy neural network in controlling a simulated version of the real-world agent; and then training the policy neural network by jointly optimizing (i) a self-supervised objective that measures at least a performance of internal representations generated by the policy neural network on a self-supervised task performed on real-world data and (ii) a second task-specific objective that measures the performance of the policy neural network in controlling the simulated version of the real-world agent.

Domain adaptation for robotic control using self-supervised learning

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for data-efficient reinforcement learning. One of the systems is a system for training an actor neural network used to select actions to be performed by an agent that interacts with an environment by receiving observations characterizing states of the environment and, in response to each observation, performing an action selected from a continuous space of possible actions, wherein the actor neural network maps observations to next actions in accordance with values of parameters of the actor neural network, and wherein the system comprises: a plurality of workers, wherein each worker is configured to operate independently of each other worker, wherein each worker is associated with a respective agent replica that interacts with a respective replica of the environment during the training of the actor neural network.

Data-efficient reinforcement learning for continuous control tasks

An off-policy reinforcement learning actor-critic neural network system configured to select actions from a continuous action space to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment to perform a task. An observation defines environment state data and reward data. The system has an actor neural network which learns a policy function mapping the state data to action data. A critic neural network learns an action-value (Q) function. A replay buffer stores tuples of the state data, the action data, the reward data and new state data. The replay buffer also includes demonstration transition data comprising a set of the tuples from a demonstration of the task within the environment. The neural network system is configured to train the actor neural network and the critic neural network off-policy using stored tuples from the replay buffer comprising tuples both from operation of the system and from the demonstration transition data.

Training action selection neural networks using apprenticeship

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