通过跨任务课程学习,提升机器人操作的样本效率与适应性。
Knowledge capture, adaptation and composition (KCAC): A framework for cross-task curriculum learning in robotic manipulation
- 设计知识捕获、适应与组合框架,实现跨任务知识迁移。
- 训练时间减少40%,任务成功率提升10%。
- 适合研究强化学习课程设计与机器人泛化能力的学者。
强化学习(RL)在机器人操作中展现巨大潜力,但面临样本效率低和可解释性差的问题,限制了其在真实场景的应用。让智能体更深入理解并高效适应多样工作环境至关重要,而策略性知识利用是关键。本文提出知识捕获、适应与组合(KCAC)框架,通过跨任务课程学习系统性地整合知识迁移。在因果世界(CausalWorld)基准的双块堆叠任务中评估,该任务对现有方法极具挑战。我们重新设计奖励函数,移除刚性约束和严格顺序,使智能体可并行最大化总奖励,实现灵活完成任务。此外,定义两个自研子任务,并构建结构化跨任务课程以促进高效学习。结果表明,相比传统方法,KCAC将训练时间减少40%,任务成功率提升10%。通过大量实验,识别出关键课程设计参数:子任务选择、转换时机和学习率,为基于课程的强化学习提供概念指导。本工作为强化学习中的课程设计与机器人学习提供了重要洞见。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated remarkable potential in robotic manipulation but faces challenges in sample inefficiency and lack of interpretability, limiting its applicability in real world scenarios. Enabling the agent to gain a deeper understanding and adapt more efficiently to diverse working scenarios is crucial, and strategic knowledge utilization is a key factor in this process. This paper proposes a Knowledge Capture, Adaptation, and Composition (KCAC) framework to systematically integrate knowledge transfer into RL through cross-task curriculum learning. KCAC is evaluated using a two block stacking task in the CausalWorld benchmark, a complex robotic manipulation environment. To our knowledge, existing RL approaches fail to solve this task effectively, reflecting deficiencies in knowledge capture. In this work, we redesign the benchmark reward function by removing rigid constraints and strict ordering, allowing the agent to maximize total rewards concurrently and enabling flexible task completion. Furthermore, we define two self-designed sub-tasks and implement a structured cross-task curriculum to facilitate efficient learning. As a result, our KCAC approach achieves a 40 percent reduction in training time while improving task success rates by 10 percent compared to traditional RL methods. Through extensive evaluation, we identify key curriculum design parameters subtask selection, transition timing, and learning rate that optimize learning efficiency and provide conceptual guidance for curriculum based RL frameworks. This work offers valuable insights into curriculum design in RL and robotic learning.
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