Learning by Playing Solving Sparse Reward Tasks from Scratch

Martin A. Riedmiller, Roland Hafner, Thomas Lampe, Michael Neunert, Jonas Degrave, Tom Van de Wiele, Vlad Mnih, Nicolas Heess, Jost Tobias Springenberg

Abstract: We propose Scheduled Auxiliary Control (SAC-X), a new learning paradigm in the context of Reinforcement Learning (RL). SAC-X enables learning of complex behaviors - from scratch - in the presence o...