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Leave no Trace: Learning to Reset for Safe and Autonomous Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2018 · Reinforcement learning › Visual and representation RL · approach: Probabilistic and autonomous RL · 73 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Jointly learn a forward policy and a reset policy instead of using forward-only learningBall in Cup · Ball in Cuptask rewardHelped
Use a learned reset policy and early aborts instead of resetting after every episodeLeave No Trace · Pusherhard resets: half the number of hard resetsHelped
Use a learned reset policy and early aborts instead of resetting after every episodeLeave No Trace · Cliff Cheetahhard resets: an order of magnitude fewer hard resetsHelped
Increase the early-abort threshold from 0 to 0.4 (ablation)Leave No Trace · Gridworldhard resets: 78%Helped
Increase the early-abort threshold from 0 to 0.4 (ablation)Leave No Trace · Gridworldsteps to solveNo clear effect
Increase the early-abort threshold to 80 (ablation)Leave No Trace · Pusherhard resets: 33%Helped
Decrease the early-abort threshold (ablation)Leave No Trace · Pusher and Cliff Cheetahhard resetsHurt
Use an early-abort threshold of 10 (ablation)Leave No Trace · Cliff Cheetahearly aborts: 69%Helped
Increase reset attempts from 1 to 4 (ablation)Leave No Trace · Pusherhard resets: 2.5xHelped
Increase reset attempts from 1 to 4 (ablation)Leave No Trace · Pusherreward: less than 25%Hurt
Increase reset attempts (ablation)Leave No Trace · Cliff Cheetahhard resets: nearly 0Helped
Increase ensemble size from 1 to 50 (ablation)Leave No Trace · Pushertask rewardHelped

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