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RRL: Resnet as representation for Reinforcement Learning
Rutav Shah · Vikash Kumar

Tue Jul 20 09:00 PM -- 11:00 PM (PDT) @
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The ability to autonomously learn behaviors via direct interactions in uninstrumented environments can lead to generalist robots capable of enhancing productivity or providing care in unstructured settings like homes. Such uninstrumented settings warrant operations only using the robot’s proprioceptive sensor such as onboard cameras, joint encoders, etc which can be challenging for policy learning owing to the high dimensionality and partial observability issues. We propose RRL: Resnet as representation for Reinforcement Learning – a straightforward yet effective approach that can learn complex behaviors directly from proprioceptive inputs. RRL fuses features extracted from pre-trained Resnet into the standard reinforcement learning pipeline and delivers results comparable to learning directly from the state. In a simulated dexterous manipulation benchmark, where the state of the art methods fails to make significant progress, RRL delivers contact rich behaviors. The appeal of RRL lies in its simplicity in bringing together progress from the fields of Representation Learning, Imitation Learning, and Reinforcement Learning. Its effectiveness in learning behaviors directly from visual inputs with performance and sample efficiency matching learning directly from the state, even in complex high dimensional domains, is far from obvious.

Keywords: Applications · Reinforcement Learning and Planning · Applications -> Computer Vision; Deep Learning -> Deep Autoencoders; Deep Learning · Generative Models; Probabilistic Methods · Deep RL

Author Information

Rutav Shah (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur)
Vikash Kumar (Univ. Of Washington)

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