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Diversity-Enriched Option-Critic

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arXiv:2011. 02565v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Temporal abstraction allows reinforcement learning agents to represent knowledge and develop strategies over different temporal scales.

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Rollout Total Correlation for Deep Reinforcement Learning

The paper proposes a method for learning task-relevant representations in deep reinforcement learning by maximizing rollout total correlation, which captures the correlation among all learned representations and actions across entire trajectories. It introduces two complementary lower bounds—one generative and one discriminative—along with chunk‑wise mini‑batching to improve this objective, and also proposes an intrinsic reward derived from the learned representation to enhance exploration. Experiments on challenging image‑based simulated control tasks demonstrate improved sample efficiency and robustness to white noise and natural video backgrounds compared to leading baselines.

By Bang You, Huaping Liu, Jan Peters, Oleg Arenz