AUTOMATIC CURRICULUM FOR UNSUPERVISED REIN- FORCEMENT LEARNING

Yucheng Yang, Tianyi Zhou, Tianhong Dai, Meng Fang, Mykola Pechenizkiy

Abstract: Recent unsupervised reinforcement learning (URL) can learn meaningful skills without task rewards by carefully designed training objectives. However, most existing works lack quantitative evaluation metrics for URL but mainly rely on visualizations of trajectories to compare the performance. Moreover, each URL method only focuses on a single training objective, which can hinder further learning progress and the development of new skills. To bridge these gaps, we first propose multiple evaluation metrics for URL that can cover different preferred properties. We show that balancing these metrics leads to what a “good” trajectory visualization embodies. Next, we use these metrics to develop an automatic curriculum that can change the URL objective across different learning stages in order to improve and balance all metrics. Specifically, we apply a non-stationary multi-armed bandit algorithm to select an existing URL objective for each episode according to the metrics evaluated in previous episodes. Extensive experiments indifferent environments demonstrate the advantages of our method on achieving promising and balanced performance over all URL metrics.

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