Bootstrap Your Own Skills: Learning to Solve New Tasks with Large Language Model Guidance

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10021v2
• Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:01:17 GMT
• Title: Bootstrap Your Own Skills: Learning to Solve New Tasks with Large Language Model Guidance
• Authors: Jesse Zhang, Jiahui Zhang, Karl Pertsch, Ziyi Liu, Xiang Ren, Minsuk Chang, Shao-Hua Sun, Joseph J. Lim
• Abstract summary: BOSS learns to accomplish new tasks by performing "skill bootstrapping" We demonstrate through experiments in realistic household environments that agents trained with our LLM-guided bootstrapping procedure outperform those trained with naive bootstrapping.
• Score: 66.615355754712
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We propose BOSS, an approach that automatically learns to solve new long-horizon, complex, and meaningful tasks by growing a learned skill library with minimal supervision. Prior work in reinforcement learning require expert supervision, in the form of demonstrations or rich reward functions, to learn long-horizon tasks. Instead, our approach BOSS (BOotStrapping your own Skills) learns to accomplish new tasks by performing "skill bootstrapping," where an agent with a set of primitive skills interacts with the environment to practice new skills without receiving reward feedback for tasks outside of the initial skill set. This bootstrapping phase is guided by large language models (LLMs) that inform the agent of meaningful skills to chain together. Through this process, BOSS builds a wide range of complex and useful behaviors from a basic set of primitive skills. We demonstrate through experiments in realistic household environments that agents trained with our LLM-guided bootstrapping procedure outperform those trained with naive bootstrapping as well as prior unsupervised skill acquisition methods on zero-shot execution of unseen, long-horizon tasks in new environments. Website at clvrai.com/boss.

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