PI-ARS: Accelerating Evolution-Learned Visual-Locomotion with Predictive Information Representations

1 · Google AI Research · Oct. 20, 2022, 11:32 p.m.
Posted by Wenhao Yu, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google, and Kuang-Huei Lee, Research Engineer, Google Research, Brain team Evolution strategy (ES) is a family of optimization techniques inspired by the ideas of natural selection: a population of candidate solutions are usually evolved over generations to better adapt to an optimization objective. ES has been applied to a variety of challenging decision making problems, such as legged locomotion, quadcopter control, and even power system con...