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arxiv 2211.04878 v1 pith:B4PBXILF submitted 2022-11-09 cs.LG cs.AI

Foundation Models for Semantic Novelty in Reinforcement Learning

classification cs.LG cs.AI
keywords intrinsiclearningchallengeclipfoundationreinforcementrewardsemantic
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Effectively exploring the environment is a key challenge in reinforcement learning (RL). We address this challenge by defining a novel intrinsic reward based on a foundation model, such as contrastive language image pretraining (CLIP), which can encode a wealth of domain-independent semantic visual-language knowledge about the world. Specifically, our intrinsic reward is defined based on pre-trained CLIP embeddings without any fine-tuning or learning on the target RL task. We demonstrate that CLIP-based intrinsic rewards can drive exploration towards semantically meaningful states and outperform state-of-the-art methods in challenging sparse-reward procedurally-generated environments.

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