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Bram Grooten, Ghada Sokar, Shibhansh Dohare, Elena Mocanu, Matthew E. Taylor, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Decebal Constantin Mocanu
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review
Tomorrow's robots will need to distinguish useful information from noise when performing different tasks. A household robot for instance may continuously receive a plethora of information about the home, but needs to focus on just a small subset to successfully execute its current chore. Filtering distracting inputs that contain irrelevant data has received little attention in the reinforcement learning literature. To start resolving this, we formulate a problem setting in reinforcement learning called the extremely noisy environment (ENE), where up to 99% of the input features are pure noise. Agents need to detect which features provide task-relevant information about the state of the environment. Consequently, we propose a new method termed Automatic Noise Filtering (ANF), which uses the principles of dynamic sparse training in synergy with various deep reinforcement learning algorithms. The sparse input layer learns to focus its connectivity on task-relevant features, such that ANF-SAC and ANF-TD3 outperform standard SAC and TD3 by a large margin, while using up to 95% fewer weights. Furthermore, we devise a transfer learning setting for ENEs, by permuting all features of the environment after 1M timesteps to simulate the fact that other information sources can become relevant as the world evolves. Again, ANF surpasses the baselines in final performance and sample complexity. Our code is available online.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | AAMAS '23 |
Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems |
Editors | A. Ricci, W. Yeoh, N. Agmon, B. An |
Publisher | ACM Press |
Pages | 1932-1941 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4503-9432-1 |
Publication status | Published - May 2023 |
Event | 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2023 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 29 May 2023 → 2 Jun 2023 Conference number: 22 |
Name | Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS |
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Publisher | ACM Publishing |
Volume | 2023 |
ISSN (Print) | 1548-8403 |
Conference | 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2023 |
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Abbreviated title | AAMAS 2023 |
Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | London |
Period | 29/05/23 → 2/06/23 |
Research output: Working paper › Preprint › Academic