Intelligent creatures can explore their environments and learn useful skills without supervision. In this paper, we propose DIAYN ("Diversity is All You Need"), a method for learning useful skills without a reward function. Our proposed method learns skills by maximizing an information theoretic objective using a maximum entropy policy. On a variety of simulated robotic tasks, we show that this simple objective results in the unsupervised emergence of diverse skills, such as walking and jumping. In a number of reinforcement learning benchmark environments, our method is able to learn a skill that solves the benchmark task despite never receiving the true task reward. In these environments, some of the learned skills correspond to solving the task, and each skill that solves the task does so in a distinct manner. Our results suggest that unsupervised discovery of skills can serve as an effective pretraining mechanism for overcoming challenges of exploration and data efficiency in reinforcement learning
Diversity is All You Need: Learning Skills without a Reward Function
Benjamin Eysenbach,Abhishek Gupta,Julian Ibarz,S. Levine
Published 2018 in International Conference on Learning Representations
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2018
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International Conference on Learning Representations
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2018-02-16
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Computer Science
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