Abstract
Biological evolution has distilled the experiences of many learners into the general learning algorithms of humans. Our novel meta reinforcement learning algorithm MetaGenRL is inspired by this process. MetaGenRL distills the experiences of many complex agents to meta-learn a low-complexity neural objective function that decides how future individuals will learn. Unlike recent meta-RL algorithms, MetaGenRL can generalize to new environments that are entirely different from those used for meta-training. In some cases, it even outperforms human-engineered RL algorithms. MetaGenRL uses off-policy second-order gradients during meta-training that greatly increase its sample efficiency.
Original language | English (US) |
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State | Published - 2020 |
Event | 8th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2020 - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Duration: Apr 30 2020 → … |
Conference
Conference | 8th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2020 |
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Country/Territory | Ethiopia |
City | Addis Ababa |
Period | 04/30/20 → … |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Education
- Linguistics and Language
- Language and Linguistics
- Computer Science Applications