Pre-training generalist agents using offline reinforcement learning

5 · Google AI Research · Feb. 23, 2023, 10:45 p.m.
Posted by Aviral Kumar, Student Researcher, and Sergey Levine, Research Scientist, Google Research Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can learn skills to solve decision-making tasks like playing games, enabling robots to pick up objects, or even optimizing microchip designs. However, running RL algorithms in the real world requires expensive active data collection. Pre-training on diverse datasets has proven to enable data-efficient fine-tuning for individual downstream tasks in natural lan...