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Meta-learning Parameterized Skills
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Measured effects reported in the paper
| What was changed | Where | Measured | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add trajectory-centric smoothness loss to off-policy meta-RL skill learning (ablation) | Parameterized skills for Ant-mix and Make Coffee · Long-horizon Ant-mix and Make Coffee | overall performance | Helped |
| Use HPS instead of P-DQN with the same pretrained skills | MLPS parameterized skills · Ant obstacle course | learning efficiency | Helped |
| Use HPS instead of HyAR with the same pretrained skills | MLPS parameterized skills · Ant obstacle course and Make Coffee | overall performance | Helped |
| Add trajectory-centric smoothness loss (ablation) | Low-level meta-policy · Ant tasks | meta-test performance | Helped |
| Add trajectory-centric smoothness loss (ablation) | Low-level meta-policy · Coffee tasks | meta-test performance | No clear effect |
| Increase smoothness loss of the learned skill embeddings (ablation) | MLPS coffee-push and coffee-pull skills · Long-horizon coffee task | overall performance | Hurt |
| Use sequential trajectory encoder and compute DTW smoothness on complete trajectories (ablation) | MLPS · Ant-goal | learning speed | Hurt |
| Use sequential trajectory encoder and compute DTW smoothness on complete trajectories (ablation) | MLPS · Ant-goal | final performance | No clear effect |
| Replace the joint critic with separate critics for discrete and continuous actions (ablation) | HPS · Coffee-make long-horizon task | learning speed | Hurt |
| Use epsilon-greedy exploration instead of Gumbel-softmax exploration (ablation) | HPS · Ant obstacle course 10b-3c | performance | Hurt |
| Use the similarity score function instead of Euclidean distance between latent embeddings (ablation) | MLPS smoothness loss · Ant-goal | performance | Mixed |
| Use dynamic time warping instead of pointwise Euclidean distance to compare trajectories (ablation) | Trajectory distance for skill learning · Ant-goal, Ant-bridge, and Ant-gather | coefficient of variation | Helped |
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