Complex Skill Acquisition through Simple Skill Adversarial Imitation Learning

07/20/2020
by   Pranay Pasula, et al.
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Humans are able to think of complex tasks as combinations of simpler subtasks in order to learn the complex tasks more efficiently. For example, a backflip could be considered a combination of four subskills: jumping, tucking knees, rolling backwards, and thrusting arms downwards. Motivated by this line of reasoning, we propose a new algorithm that trains neural network policies on simple, easy-to-learn skills in order to cultivate latent spaces that accelerate adversarial imitation learning of complex, hard-to-learn skills. We evaluate our algorithm on a difficult task in a high-dimensional environment and see that it consistently outperforms a state-of-the-art baseline in training speed and overall task performance.

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