Title:
Learning to Compose Skills

dc.contributor.advisor Isbell, Charles L.
dc.contributor.author Tejani, Farhan
dc.contributor.committeeMember Riedl, Mark
dc.contributor.department Computer Science
dc.date.accessioned 2019-05-30T16:23:43Z
dc.date.available 2019-05-30T16:23:43Z
dc.date.created 2019-05
dc.date.issued 2019-05
dc.date.submitted May 2019
dc.date.updated 2019-05-30T16:23:43Z
dc.description.abstract We present a differentiable framework capable of learning a wide variety of compositions of simple policies that we call skills. By recursively composing skills with themselves, we can create hierarchies that display complex behavior. Skill networks are trained to generate skill-state embeddings that are provided as inputs to a trainable composition function, which in turn outputs a policy for the overall task. Our experiments on an environment consisting of multiple collect and evade tasks show that this architecture is able to quickly build complex skills from simpler ones. Furthermore, the learned composition function displays some transfer to unseen combinations of skills, allowing for zero-shot generalizations. We also design experiments for learning both skills as well as optimal compositions of those skills from scratch. This allows for the agent to more intelligently search the space of possible skills rather than having a human hand-design the composition functions, which may be limited in scope.
dc.description.degree Undergraduate
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dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/61368
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject Reinforcement learning
dc.subject Artificial intelligence
dc.subject Machine learning
dc.title Learning to Compose Skills
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dc.type.genre Undergraduate Thesis
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local.contributor.advisor Isbell, Charles L.
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local.contributor.corporatename School of Computer Science
local.contributor.corporatename Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
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