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Conditional Energy-Based Models for Implicit Policies: The Gap between Theory and Practice

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arxiv 2207.05824 v1 pith:FDHCNYFN submitted 2022-07-12 cs.RO cs.LG

Conditional Energy-Based Models for Implicit Policies: The Gap between Theory and Practice

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keywords conditionalimplicitmodelsebmsenergy-basedpoliciespracticetheory
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We present our findings in the gap between theory and practice of using conditional energy-based models (EBM) as an implicit representation for behavior-cloned policies. We also clarify several subtle, and potentially confusing, details in previous work in an attempt to help future research in this area. We point out key differences between unconditional and conditional EBMs, and warn that blindly applying training methods for one to the other could lead to undesirable results that do not generalize well. Finally, we emphasize the importance of the Maximum Mutual Information principle as a necessary condition to achieve good generalization in conditional EBMs as implicit models for regression tasks.

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