DeepMind Control Suite
The DeepMind Control Suite is a benchmark environment used to evaluate reinforcement learning (RL) agents on a variety of continuous control tasks, primarily focusing on improving the robustness and generalization capabilities of these agents, especially when dealing with visual inputs. Current research emphasizes developing more efficient and robust RL algorithms, including model-based approaches like DreamerV3 and its variants (e.g., MuDreamer), and incorporating techniques like contrastive learning and self-supervised learning to improve representation learning from visual data. This research is significant because it pushes the boundaries of RL's ability to handle complex, real-world scenarios, ultimately contributing to the development of more adaptable and reliable AI agents for robotics and other applications.
Papers
Action Inference by Maximising Evidence: Zero-Shot Imitation from Observation with World Models
Xingyuan Zhang, Philip Becker-Ehmck, Patrick van der Smagt, Maximilian Karl
A Reliable Representation with Bidirectional Transition Model for Visual Reinforcement Learning Generalization
Xiaobo Hu, Youfang Lin, Yue Liu, Jinwen Wang, Shuo Wang, Hehe Fan, Kai Lv