Similarity-based Knowledge Transfer for Cross-Domain Reinforcement Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03764v1
• Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 19:26:01 GMT
• Title: Similarity-based Knowledge Transfer for Cross-Domain Reinforcement Learning
• Authors: Sergio A. Serrano and Jose Martinez-Carranza and L. Enrique Sucar
• Abstract summary: We develop a semi-supervised alignment loss to match different spaces with a set of encoder-decoders. In comparison to prior works, our method does not require data to be aligned, paired or collected by expert policies.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Transferring knowledge in cross-domain reinforcement learning is a challenging setting in which learning is accelerated by reusing knowledge from a task with different observation and/or action space. However, it is often necessary to carefully select the source of knowledge for the receiving end to benefit from the transfer process. In this article, we study how to measure the similarity between cross-domain reinforcement learning tasks to select a source of knowledge that will improve the performance of the learning agent. We developed a semi-supervised alignment loss to match different spaces with a set of encoder-decoders, and use them to measure similarity and transfer policies across tasks. In comparison to prior works, our method does not require data to be aligned, paired or collected by expert policies. Experimental results, on a set of varied Mujoco control tasks, show the robustness of our method in effectively selecting and transferring knowledge, without the supervision of a tailored set of source tasks.

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