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Poster
Disentangling Transfer in Continual Reinforcement Learning
Maciej Wolczyk · Michał Zając · Razvan Pascanu · Łukasz Kuciński · Piotr Miłoś

Thu Dec 01 02:00 PM -- 04:00 PM (PST) @ Hall J #110
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The ability of continual learning systems to transfer knowledge from previously seen tasks in order to maximize performance on new tasks is a significant challenge for the field, limiting the applicability of continual learning solutions to realistic scenarios. Consequently, this study aims to broaden our understanding of transfer and its driving forces in the specific case of continual reinforcement learning. We adopt SAC as the underlying RL algorithm and Continual World as a suite of continuous control tasks. We systematically study how different components of SAC (the actor and the critic, exploration, and data) affect transfer efficacy, and we provide recommendations regarding various modeling options. The best set of choices, dubbed ClonEx-SAC, is evaluated on the recent Continual World benchmark. ClonEx-SAC achieves 87% final success rate compared to 80% of PackNet, the best method in the benchmark. Moreover, the transfer grows from 0.18 to 0.54 according to the metric provided by Continual World.

Keywords: Reinforcement Learning · continual learning · transfer learning

Author Information

Maciej Wolczyk (Jagiellonian University Cracow)
Michał Zając (Jagiellonian University)
Razvan Pascanu (Google DeepMind)
Łukasz Kuciński (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Piotr Miłoś (Ideas NCBR, Polish Academy of Sciences)

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