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DARLA: Improving Zero-Shot Transfer in Reinforcement Learning
Irina Higgins · Arka Pal · Andrei Rusu · Loic Matthey · Christopher Burgess · Alexander Pritzel · Matthew Botvinick · Charles Blundell · Alexander Lerchner

Mon Aug 7th 04:42 -- 05:00 PM @ C4.5
in Reinforcement learning 3 »

Domain adaptation is an important open problem in deep reinforcement learning (RL). In many scenarios of interest data is hard to obtain, so agents may learn a source policy in a setting where data is readily available, with the hope that it generalises well to the target domain. We propose a new multi-stage RL agent, DARLA (DisentAngled Representation Learning Agent), which learns to see before learning to act. DARLA’s vision is based on learning a disentangled representation of the observed environment. Once DARLA can see, it is able to acquire source policies that are robust to many domain shifts - even with no access to the target domain. DARLA significantly outperforms conventional baselines in zero-shot domain adaptation scenarios, an effect that holds across a variety of RL environments (Jaco arm, DeepMind Lab) and base RL algorithms (DQN, A3C and EC).

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Irina Higgins (DeepMind)
Arka Pal (DeepMind)
Andrei Rusu (DeepMind)
Loic Matthey (DeepMind)
Christopher Burgess (DeepMind)
Alexander Pritzel (Deepmind)
Matthew Botvinick (DeepMind)
Charles Blundell (DeepMind)
Alexander Lerchner (DeepMind)

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