CEIP: Combining Explicit and Implicit Priors for Reinforcement Learning with Demonstrations
CEIP: Combining Explicit and Implicit Priors for Reinforcement Learning with Demonstrations
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10.48550/arxiv.2210.09496
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2022-10
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Kai Yan;A. Schwing;Yu-Xiong Wang
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Kai Yan;A. Schwing;Yu-Xiong Wang
Although reinforcement learning has found widespread use in dense reward settings, training autonomous agents with sparse rewards remains challenging. To address this difficulty, prior work has shown promising results when using not only task-specific demonstrations but also task-agnostic albeit somewhat related demonstrations. In most cases, the available demonstrations are distilled into an implicit prior, commonly represented via a single deep net. Explicit priors in the form of a database that can be queried have also been shown to lead to encouraging results. To better benefit from available demonstrations, we develop a method to Combine Explicit and Implicit Priors (CEIP). CEIP exploits multiple implicit priors in the form of normalizing flows in parallel to form a single complex prior. Moreover, CEIP uses an effective explicit retrieval and push-forward mechanism to condition the implicit priors. In three challenging environments, we find the proposed CEIP method to improve upon sophisticated state-of-the-art techniques.