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Shai Keynan
dblp:294/8454
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2021
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Reinforcement learning · 75% Deep learning architectures and training · 25% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
actor-critic methods |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Recomposing the Reinforcement Learning Building Blocks with Hypernetworks · ICML 2021 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training
hypernetwork |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Recomposing the Reinforcement Learning Building Blocks with Hypernetworks · ICML 2021 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
meta-reinforcement learning |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Recomposing the Reinforcement Learning Building Blocks with Hypernetworks · ICML 2021 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › value function approximation
q-function approximation |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | Recomposing the Reinforcement Learning Building Blocks with Hypernetworks · ICML 2021 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
hypernetwork · 0.5gradient estimation · 0.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Recomposing the Reinforcement Learning Building Blocks with HypernetworksabstractThe Reinforcement Learning (RL) building blocks, i.e. $Q$-functions and policy networks, usually take elements from the cartesian product of two domains as input. In particular, the input of the $Q$-function is both the state and the action, and in multi-task problems (Meta-RL) the policy can take a state and a context. Standard architectures tend to ignore these variables’ underlying interpretations and simply concatenate their features into a single vector. In this work, we argue that this choice may lead to poor gradient estimation in actor-critic algorithms and high variance learning steps in Meta-RL algorithms. To consider the interaction between the input variables, we suggest using a Hypernetwork architecture where a primary network determines the weights of a conditional dynamic network. We show that this approach improves the gradient approximation and reduces the learning step variance, which both accelerates learning and improves the final performance. We demonstrate a consistent improvement across different locomotion tasks and different algorithms both in RL (TD3 and SAC) and in Meta-RL (MAML and PEARL). Elad Sarafian, Shai Keynan, Sarit Kraus |
ICML | 2 |