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Daksh Anand
dblp:241/7994
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2021
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 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 · 54% Deep learning architectures and training · 23% Multi-agent systems · 23% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Multi-agent systems › human-agent interaction
agent advising |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | An Enhanced Advising Model in Teacher-Student Framework using State Categorization · AAAI 2021 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › off-policy reinforcement learning
experience replay |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | An Enhanced Advising Model in Teacher-Student Framework using State Categorization · AAAI 2021 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › sample efficiency
sample-efficient reinforcement learning |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | An Enhanced Advising Model in Teacher-Student Framework using State Categorization · AAAI 2021 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training
teacher-student framework |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | An Enhanced Advising Model in Teacher-Student Framework using State Categorization · AAAI 2021 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
deep reinforcement learning |
0.1 | 1 | 2021 | An Enhanced Advising Model in Teacher-Student Framework using State Categorization · AAAI 2021 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
state categorization · 0.5qualitative state assessment · 0.5advice replay · 0.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | An Enhanced Advising Model in Teacher-Student Framework using State CategorizationabstractThe teacher-student framework aims to improve the sample efficiency of RL algorithms by deploying an advising mechanism in which a teacher helps a student by guiding its exploration. Prior work in this field has considered an advising mechanism where the teacher advises the student about the optimal action to take in a given state. However, real-world teachers can leverage domain expertise to provide more informative signals. Using this insight, we propose to extend the current advising framework wherein the teacher would provide not only the optimal action but also a qualitative assessment of the state. We introduce a novel architecture, namely Advice Replay Memory (ARM), to effectively reuse the advice provided by the teacher. We demonstrate the robustness of our approach by showcasing our experiments on multiple Atari 2600 games using a fixed set of hyper-parameters. Additionally, we show that a student taking help even from a sub-optimal teacher can achieve significant performance boosts and eventually outperform the teacher. Our approach outperforms the baselines even when provided with comparatively suboptimal teachers and an advising budget, which is smaller by orders of magnitude. The contributions of our paper are 4-fold (a) effectively leveraging a teacher's knowledge by richer advising (b) introduction of ARM to effectively reuse the advice throughout learning (c) ability to achieve significant performance boost even with a coarse state categorization (d) enabling the student to outperform the teacher. Daksh Anand, Vaibhav Gupta, Praveen Paruchuri, Balaraman Ravindran |
AAAI | 1 |