Hierarchical behavioral repertoires with unsupervised descriptors
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Author(s)
Cully, AHR
Demiris, Yiannis
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Enabling artificial agents to automatically learn complex, versatile and high-performing behaviors is a long-lasting challenge. This paper presents a step in this direction with hierarchical behavioral repertoires that stack several behavioral repertoires to generate sophisticated behaviors. Each repertoire of this architecture uses the lower repertoires to create complex behaviors as sequences of simpler ones, while only the lowest repertoire directly controls the agent's movements. This paper also introduces a novel approach to automatically define behavioral descriptors thanks to an unsupervised neural network that organizes the produced high-level behaviors. The experiments show that the proposed architecture enables a robot to learn how to draw digits in an unsupervised manner after having learned to draw lines and arcs. Compared to traditional behavioral repertoires, the proposed architecture reduces the dimensionality of the optimization problems by orders of magnitude and provides behaviors with a twice better fitness. More importantly, it enables the transfer of knowledge between robots: a hierarchical repertoire evolved for a robotic arm to draw digits can be transferred to a humanoid robot by simply changing the lowest layer of the hierarchy. This enables the humanoid to draw digits although it has never been trained for this task.
Date Issued
2018-07-02
Date Acceptance
2018-03-24
Citation
GECCO '18: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2018
ISBN
9781450356183
Publisher
ACM
Journal / Book Title
GECCO '18: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
Copyright Statement
© 2018 ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in GECCO '18: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, (July 2018), https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3205455.3205571
Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Grant Number
643783
Source
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2018
Subjects
cs.RO
cs.RO
cs.NE
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2018-07-14
Finish Date
2018-07-19
Coverage Spatial
Kyoto, Japan