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RL Weekly 37: Observational Overfitting, Hindsight Credit Assignment, and Procedurally Generated Environment Suite

RL Weekly 37: Observational Overfitting, Hindsight Credit Assignment, and Procedurally Generated Environment Suite

In this issue, we look at Google and MIT's study on the observational overfitting phenomenon and how overparametrization helps generalization, a new family of algorithms...

RL Weekly 36: AlphaZero with a Learned Model achieves SotA in Atari

RL Weekly 36: AlphaZero with a Learned Model achieves SotA in Atari

In this issue, we look at MuZero, DeepMind's new algorithm that learns a model and achieves AlphaZero performance in Chess, Shogi, and Go and achieves...

RL Weekly 35: Escaping Local Optimas in Distance-based Rewards and Choosing the Best Teacher

RL Weekly 35: Escaping Local Optimas in Distance-based Rewards and Choosing the Best Teacher

In this issue, we look at an algorithm that use sibling trajectories to escape local optimas in distance-based shaped rewards, and an algorithm that dynamically...

RL Weekly 34: Dexterous Manipulation of the Rubik's Cube and Human-Agent Collaboration in Overcooked

RL Weekly 34: Dexterous Manipulation of the Rubik's Cube and Human-Agent Collaboration in Overcooked

In this issue, we look at a robot hand manipulating and "solving" the Rubik's Cube. We also look at comparative performances of human-agnostic and human-aware...

RL Weekly 33: Action Grammar, the Squashing Exploration Problem, and Task-relevant GAIL

RL Weekly 33: Action Grammar, the Squashing Exploration Problem, and Task-relevant GAIL

In this issue, we look at Action Grammar RL, a hierarchical RL framework that adds new macro-actions, improving performance of DDQN and SAC in Atari...

RL Weekly 32: New SotA Sample Efficiency on Atari and an Analysis of the Benefits of Hierarchical RL

RL Weekly 32: New SotA Sample Efficiency on Atari and an Analysis of the Benefits of Hierarchical RL

In this issue, we look at LASER, DeepMind's improvement to V-trace that achieves state-of-the-art sample efficiency in Atari environments. We also look at Google AI...