no code implementations • 4 Mar 2024 • Gianluca Baldassarre, Richard J. Duro, Emilio Cartoni, Mehdi Khamassi, Alejandro Romero, Vieri Giuliano Santucci
Overall, the approach enables OEL robots to learn in an autonomous way but also to focus on acquiring goals and skills that meet the purposes of the designers and users.
no code implementations • 1 Nov 2023 • Olivier Sigaud, Gianluca Baldassarre, Cedric Colas, Stephane Doncieux, Richard Duro, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert, Vieri Giuliano Santucci
A lot of recent machine learning research papers have ``open-ended learning'' in their title.
no code implementations • 18 May 2023 • Michele Farisco, Gianluca Baldassarre, Emilio Cartoni, Antonia Leach, Mihai A. Petrovici, Achim Rosemann, Arleen Salles, Bernd Stahl, Sacha J. van Albada
The conclusion resulting from the application of this method is that, compared to traditional AI, brain-inspired AI raises new foundational ethical issues and some new practical ethical issues, and exacerbates some of the issues raised by traditional AI.
no code implementations • 16 May 2022 • Alejandro Romero, Gianluca Baldassarre, Richard J. Duro, Vieri Giuliano Santucci
Building on previous works, we tackle these crucial issues at the level of decision making (i. e., building strategies to properly select between goals), and we propose a hierarchical architecture that treating sub-tasks selection as a Markov Decision Process is able to properly learn interdependent skills on the basis of intrinsically generated motivations.
no code implementations • 7 Jun 2021 • Giovanni Granato, Emilio Cartoni, Federico Da Rold, Andrea Mattera, Gianluca Baldassarre
We propose that in the cortex the same reward-based trial-and-error processes might support not only the acquisition of motor representations but also of sensory representations.
no code implementations • 27 Jan 2021 • Charles Wilmot, Gianluca Baldassarre, Jochen Triesch
A key competence for open-ended learning is the formation of increasingly abstract representations useful for driving complex behavior.
1 code implementation • 27 Nov 2020 • Emilio Cartoni, Davide Montella, Jochen Triesch, Gianluca Baldassarre
The first contribution of this work is to study the challenges posed by the previously proposed benchmark `REAL competition' aiming to foster the development of truly open-ended learning robot architectures.
no code implementations • 27 Nov 2020 • Vieri Giuliano Santucci, Davide Montella, Bruno Castro da Silva, Gianluca Baldassarre
These situations pose two challenges: (a) to recognise the different contexts that need different policies; (b) quickly learn the policies to accomplish the same tasks in the new discovered contexts.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2020 • Manuel Del Verme, Bruno Castro da Silva, Gianluca Baldassarre
Reinforcement learning can greatly benefit from the use of options as a way of encoding recurring behaviours and to foster exploration.
no code implementations • 31 Dec 2019 • Gianluca Baldassarre
There is a growing interest and literature on intrinsic motivations and open-ended learning in both cognitive robotics and machine learning on one side, and in psychology and neuroscience on the other.
no code implementations • 31 Dec 2019 • Giovanni Granato, Gianluca Baldassarre
Goal-directed manipulation of representations is a key element of human flexible behaviour, while consciousness is often related to several aspects of higher-order cognition and human flexibility.
no code implementations • 18 Jul 2019 • Angelo Oddi, Riccardo Rasconi, Emilio Cartoni, Gabriele Sartor, Gianluca Baldassarre, Vieri Giuliano Santucci
In particular, the architecture first acquires options in a fully autonomous fashion on the basis of open-ended learning, then builds a PDDL domain based on symbols and operators that can be used to accomplish user-defined goals through a standard PDDL planner.
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Reinforcement Learning +1
no code implementations • 4 Jun 2019 • Vieri Giuliano Santucci, Gianluca Baldassarre, Emilio Cartoni
Autonomous multiple tasks learning is a fundamental capability to develop versatile artificial agents that can act in complex environments.
no code implementations • 7 May 2019 • Vieri Giuliano Santucci, Emilio Cartoni, Bruno Castro da Silva, Gianluca Baldassarre
Autonomy is fundamental for artificial agents acting in complex real-world scenarios.
no code implementations • 19 May 2018 • Emilio Cartoni, Gianluca Baldassarre
The agent may posit as a task space its whole sensory space (i. e. the space of all possible sensor readings) as the achievable goals will certainly be a subset of this space.