Multi-Task Policy Search
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Supporting information
Working paper
Author(s)
Deisenroth, MP
Englert, P
Peters, J
Fox, D
Type
Report
Abstract
Learning policies that generalize across multiple tasks is an important and challenging research topic in reinforcement learning and robotics. Training individual policies for every single potential task is often impractical, especially for continuous task variations, requiring more principled approaches to share and transfer knowledge among similar tasks. We present a novel approach for learning a nonlinear feedback policy that generalizes across multiple tasks. The key idea is to define a parametrized policy as a function of both the state and the task, which allows learning a single policy that generalizes across multiple known and unknown tasks. Applications of our novel approach to reinforcement and imitation learning in real-robot experiments are shown.
Date Issued
2013-12-31
Copyright Statement
© 2013 The Authors
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Identifier
http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0813v2
Notes
8 pages, double column. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014