Byron Xu

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—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
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

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Planning, search and constraint satisfaction › planning
goal-conditioned planning
0.812024
PcLast: Discovering Plannable Continuous Latent States · ICML 2024
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Planning, search and constraint satisfaction
hierarchical planning
0.812024
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
0.812024
PcLast: Discovering Plannable Continuous Latent States · ICML 2024
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › function approximation › representation learning for reinforcement learning
state abstraction
0.812024
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
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2024 PcLast: Discovering Plannable Continuous Latent States
abstract
Goal-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
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