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Learning Invariant Feature Spaces to Transfer Skills with Reinforcement Learning

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People can learn a wide range of tasks from their own experience, but can also learn from observing other creatures. This can accelerate acquisition of new skills even when the observed agent differs substantially from the learning agent in terms of morphology. In this paper, we examine how reinforcement learning algorithms can transfer knowledge between morphologically different agents (e.g., different robots). We introduce a problem formulation where two agents are tasked with learning multiple skills by sharing information. Our method uses the skills that were learned by both agents to train invariant feature spaces that can then be used to transfer other skills from one agent to another. The process of learning these invariant feature spaces can be viewed as a kind of "analogy making", or implicit learning of partial correspondences between two distinct domains. We evaluate our transfer learning algorithm in two simulated robotic manipulation skills, and illustrate that we can transfer knowledge between simulated robotic arms with different numbers of links, as well as simulated arms with different actuation mechanisms, where one robot is torque-driven while the other is tendon-driven.

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representative citing papers

Solving Rubik's Cube with a Robot Hand

cs.LG · 2019-10-16 · accept · novelty 7.0

Reinforcement learning models trained only in simulation using automatic domain randomization solve Rubik's cube with a real robot hand.

RoboNet: Large-Scale Multi-Robot Learning

cs.RO · 2019-10-24 · conditional · novelty 6.0

RoboNet is a multi-robot video dataset that enables pre-training of vision-based manipulation models which, after fine-tuning on a new robot, outperform robot-specific training that uses 4-20 times more data.

Environment Probing Interaction Policies

cs.RO · 2019-07-26 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

EPI policies use a transition-predictability reward to probe environments and condition task policies, outperforming standard generalization methods on novel test environments.

Attentive Multi-Task Deep Reinforcement Learning

cs.LG · 2019-07-05 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Attention mechanism dynamically groups task knowledge at state granularity in multi-task DRL to enable positive transfer and avoid negative transfer, matching or exceeding prior methods with fewer parameters.

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  • Demo-JEPA: Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture for One-shot Cross-Embodiment Imitation cs.RO · 2026-05-20 · unverdicted · none · ref 32 · internal anchor

    Demo-JEPA enables one-shot cross-embodiment imitation by mapping visual demonstrations to shared latent future trajectories that serve as subgoals for the target agent's own forward dynamics planning.

  • Solving Rubik's Cube with a Robot Hand cs.LG · 2019-10-16 · accept · none · ref 38 · internal anchor

    Reinforcement learning models trained only in simulation using automatic domain randomization solve Rubik's cube with a real robot hand.

  • RoboNet: Large-Scale Multi-Robot Learning cs.RO · 2019-10-24 · conditional · none · ref 38 · internal anchor

    RoboNet is a multi-robot video dataset that enables pre-training of vision-based manipulation models which, after fine-tuning on a new robot, outperform robot-specific training that uses 4-20 times more data.

  • Environment Probing Interaction Policies cs.RO · 2019-07-26 · unverdicted · none · ref 8 · internal anchor

    EPI policies use a transition-predictability reward to probe environments and condition task policies, outperforming standard generalization methods on novel test environments.

  • Attentive Multi-Task Deep Reinforcement Learning cs.LG · 2019-07-05 · unverdicted · none · ref 9 · internal anchor

    Attention mechanism dynamically groups task knowledge at state granularity in multi-task DRL to enable positive transfer and avoid negative transfer, matching or exceeding prior methods with fewer parameters.