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Alexander Gabriel
dblp:133/9069
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
0since 2021 · last 2017
0009-0003-9852-7483ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-authorSystems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author
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 · 88% Robot manipulation · 12% |
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 › exploration › intrinsically motivated reinforcement learning
empowerment |
0.3 | 1 | 2017 | Empowered skills · ICRA 2017 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › exploration
intrinsic motivation |
0.3 | 1 | 2017 | Empowered skills · ICRA 2017 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
policy search |
0.1 | 1 | 2017 | Empowered skills · ICRA 2017 |
Robotics › Robot manipulation › nonprehensile manipulation › dynamic manipulation
table tennis robot |
0.1 | 1 | 2017 | Empowered skills · ICRA 2017 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
policy search · 0.3intrinsic motivation · 0.3empowerment · 0.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Empowered skillsabstractRobot Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms return a policy that maximizes a global cumulative reward signal but typically do not create diverse behaviors. Hence, the policy will typically only capture a single solution of a task. However, many motor tasks have a large variety of solutions and the knowledge about these solutions can have several advantages. For example, in an adversarial setting such as robot table tennis, the lack of diversity renders the behavior predictable and hence easy to counter for the opponent. In an interactive setting such as learning from human feedback, an emphasis on diversity gives the human more opportunity for guiding the robot and to avoid the latter to be stuck in local optima of the task. In order to increase diversity of the learned behaviors, we leverage prior work on intrinsic motivation and empowerment. We derive a new intrinsic motivation signal by enriching the description of a task with an outcome space, representing interesting aspects of a sensorimotor stream. For example, in table tennis, the outcome space could be given by the return position and return ball speed. The intrinsic motivation is now given by the diversity of future outcomes, a concept also known as empowerment. We derive a new policy search algorithm that maximizes a trade-off between the extrinsic reward and this intrinsic motivation criterion. Experiments on a planar reaching task and simulated robot table tennis demonstrate that our algorithm can learn a diverse set of behaviors within the area of interest of the tasks. Alexander Gabriel, Riad Akrour, Jan Peters 0001, Gerhard Neumann |
ICRA | 1 |