Diverse Behavior
Diverse behavior research focuses on enabling systems, particularly robots and AI agents, to exhibit a wide range of actions and skills adaptable to various situations. Current research emphasizes developing algorithms and models, such as diffusion models, Bayesian optimization, and contrastive learning methods, to efficiently learn and generate diverse behaviors from limited data, often incorporating constraints and human preferences. This field is significant for advancing robotics, AI, and recommendation systems, enabling more robust, adaptable, and user-friendly technologies. The development of effective metrics for quantifying behavioral diversity is also a key area of ongoing investigation.
Papers
The Quality-Diversity Transformer: Generating Behavior-Conditioned Trajectories with Decision Transformers
Valentin Macé, Raphaël Boige, Felix Chalumeau, Thomas Pierrot, Guillaume Richard, Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert
Learning a Single Policy for Diverse Behaviors on a Quadrupedal Robot using Scalable Motion Imitation
Arnaud Klipfel, Nitish Sontakke, Ren Liu, Sehoon Ha