OpenAI researchers have introduced VALOR, a new method for option discovery in reinforcement learning that leverages variational autoencoders. This approach connects variational inference techniques with autoencoders, allowing policies to encode contexts into trajectories and decoders to recover them. Additionally, they propose a curriculum learning strategy that increases the number of contexts an agent encounters as its performance improves, which stabilizes training and enables learning a wider range of behaviors. AI
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