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Byron Xu
dblp:360/4954
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
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 |
Planning, search and constraint satisfaction · 50% Representation and self-supervised learning · 25% Reinforcement learning · 25% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Planning, search and constraint satisfaction › planning
goal-conditioned planning |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | PcLast: Discovering Plannable Continuous Latent States · ICML 2024 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Planning, search and constraint satisfaction
hierarchical planning |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | PcLast: Discovering Plannable Continuous Latent States · ICML 2024 |
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › representation learning › latent representation learning › state representation learning
latent state representation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | PcLast: Discovering Plannable Continuous Latent States · ICML 2024 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › function approximation › representation learning for reinforcement learning
state abstraction |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | PcLast: Discovering Plannable Continuous Latent States · ICML 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
variational autoencoder · 0.8multistep inverse dynamics · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | PcLast: Discovering Plannable Continuous Latent StatesabstractGoal-conditioned planning benefits from learned low-dimensional representations of rich observations. While compact latent representations typically learned from variational autoencoders or inverse dynamics enable goal-conditioned decision making, they ignore state reachability, hampering their performance. In this paper, we learn a representation that associates reachable states together for effective planning and goal-conditioned policy learning. We first learn a latent representation with multi-step inverse dynamics (to remove distracting information), and then transform this representation to associate reachable states together in $\ell_2$ space. Our proposals are rigorously tested in various simulation testbeds. Numerical results in reward-based settings show significant improvements in sampling efficiency. Further, in reward-free settings this approach yields layered state abstractions that enable computationally efficient hierarchical planning for reaching ad hoc goals with zero additional samples. Anurag Koul, Shivakanth Sujit, Shaoru Chen, Ben Evans, Byron Xu, Rajan Chari, Riashat Islam, Raihan Seraj, Yonathan Efroni, Lekan P. Molu, Miroslav Dudík, John Langford 0001, Alex Lamb |
ICML | 6 |