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2018

Relational Deep Reinforcement Learning

Zambaldi, Vinicius, Raposo, David, Santoro, Adam et al.

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We introduce an approach for deep reinforcement learning (RL) that improves upon the efficiency, generalization capacity, and interpretability of conventional approaches through structured perception and relational reasoning.

  • It uses self-attention to iteratively reason about the relations between entities in a scene and to guide a model-free policy.
  • Our results show that in a novel navigation and planning task called Box-World, our agent finds interpretable solutions that improve upon baselines in terms of sample complexity, ability to generalize to more complex scenes than experienced during training, and overall performance.
  • In the StarCraft II Learning Environment, our agent achieves state-of-the-art performance on six mini-games -- surpassing human grandmaster performance on four.

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