no code implementations • 9 Jul 2024 • Sumeet Batra, Bryon Tjanaka, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Gaurav Sukhatme
Quality Diversity (QD) has shown great success in discovering high-performing, diverse policies for robot skill learning.
no code implementations • 18 Dec 2023 • David H. Lee, Anishalakshmi V. Palaparthi, Matthew C. Fontaine, Bryon Tjanaka, Stefanos Nikolaidis
We propose Density Descent Search (DDS), an algorithm that explores the feature space via CMA-ES on a continuous density estimate of the feature space that also provides a stronger stability guarantee.
no code implementations • 23 May 2023 • Sumeet Batra, Bryon Tjanaka, Matthew C. Fontaine, Aleksei Petrenko, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Gaurav Sukhatme
Training generally capable agents that thoroughly explore their environment and learn new and diverse skills is a long-term goal of robot learning.
1 code implementation • 26 Apr 2023 • Varun Bhatt, Heramb Nemlekar, Matthew C. Fontaine, Bryon Tjanaka, Hejia Zhang, Ya-Chuan Hsu, Stefanos Nikolaidis
In the shared control teleoperation domain and a more complex shared workspace collaboration task, we show that surrogate assisted scenario generation efficiently synthesizes diverse datasets of challenging scenarios.
1 code implementation • 1 Mar 2023 • Bryon Tjanaka, Matthew C. Fontaine, David H. Lee, Yulun Zhang, Nivedit Reddy Balam, Nathaniel Dennler, Sujay S. Garlanka, Nikitas Dimitri Klapsis, Stefanos Nikolaidis
Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity of quality diversity (QD) optimization, a branch of optimization that seeks to find a collection of diverse, high-performing solutions to a given problem.
1 code implementation • 6 Oct 2022 • Bryon Tjanaka, Matthew C. Fontaine, David H. Lee, Aniruddha Kalkar, Stefanos Nikolaidis
Pre-training a diverse set of neural network controllers in simulation has enabled robots to adapt online to damage in robot locomotion tasks.
no code implementations • 9 Jun 2022 • Varun Bhatt, Bryon Tjanaka, Matthew C. Fontaine, Stefanos Nikolaidis
Results in two benchmark domains show that DSAGE significantly outperforms existing QD environment generation algorithms in discovering collections of environments that elicit diverse behaviors of a state-of-the-art RL agent and a planning agent.
1 code implementation • 8 Feb 2022 • Bryon Tjanaka, Matthew C. Fontaine, Julian Togelius, Stefanos Nikolaidis
Training can then be viewed as a quality diversity (QD) optimization problem, where we search for a collection of performant policies that are diverse with respect to quantified behavior.
1 code implementation • 21 Jun 2021 • Matthew C. Fontaine, Ya-Chuan Hsu, Yulun Zhang, Bryon Tjanaka, Stefanos Nikolaidis
When studying robots collaborating with humans, much of the focus has been on robot policies that coordinate fluently with human teammates in collaborative tasks.
2 code implementations • 22 Oct 2020 • Nicholas Monath, Avinava Dubey, Guru Guruganesh, Manzil Zaheer, Amr Ahmed, Andrew McCallum, Gokhan Mergen, Marc Najork, Mert Terzihan, Bryon Tjanaka, YuAn Wang, Yuchen Wu
The applicability of agglomerative clustering, for inferring both hierarchical and flat clustering, is limited by its scalability.