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Mastering the Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning Benchmark from Pixels
Sai Rajeswar · Pietro Mazzaglia · Tim Verbelen · Alex Piche · Bart Dhoedt · Aaron Courville · Alexandre Lacoste

Tue Jul 25 02:00 PM -- 04:30 PM (PDT) @ Exhibit Hall 1 #620
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Controlling artificial agents from visual sensory data is an arduous task. Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can succeed but require large amounts of interactions between the agent and the environment. To alleviate the issue, unsupervised RL proposes to employ self-supervised interaction and learning, for adapting faster to future tasks. Yet, as shown in the Unsupervised RL Benchmark (URLB; Laskin et al. 2021), whether current unsupervised strategies can improve generalization capabilities is still unclear, especially in visual control settings. In this work, we study the URLB and propose a new method to solve it, using unsupervised model-based RL, for pre-training the agent, and a task-aware fine-tuning strategy combined with a new proposed hybrid planner, Dyna-MPC, to adapt the agent for downstream tasks. On URLB, our method obtains 93.59% overall normalized performance, surpassing previous baselines by a staggering margin. The approach is empirically evaluated through a large-scale empirical study, which we use to validate our design choices and analyze our models. We also show robust performance on the Real-Word RL benchmark, hinting at resiliency to environment perturbations during adaptation. Project website: https://masteringurlb.github.io/

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Sai Rajeswar (University of Montreal)
Pietro Mazzaglia (Ghent University)
Tim Verbelen (VERSES)
Alex Piche (Mila)
Bart Dhoedt (Ghent University)
Aaron Courville (University of Montreal)
Alexandre Lacoste (ServiceNow Research)

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