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New Geometric Approach Enhances Locomotion Learning in Reinforcement Agents

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Researchers have developed GeZo-SAC, a novel approach to Soft Actor-Critic methods that enhances locomotion learning by adapting critic pessimism using geometric representations. This method utilizes zonotopes to represent critic disagreement, allowing for a more nuanced combination of critic values. In evaluations across four MuJoCo locomotion benchmarks, GeZo-SAC demonstrated superior performance on Ant-v5 and Hopper-v5, while remaining competitive on other tasks. Additionally, the approach achieved lower actuator work and action effort per meter with minimal overestimation. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more efficient and stable locomotion learning in robotics and AI agents.

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New Geometric Approach Enhances Locomotion Learning in Reinforcement Agents

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Panagiotis Roditis, Panagiotis P. Filntisis, Petros Maragos ·

    A Geometric Approach to Soft Actor-Critic with Zonotopes for Locomotion Learning

    arXiv:2610.12113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Off-policy actor--critic methods control overestimation bias by taking the minimum of two critics. This uses the same aggregation rule everywhere, regardless of how the critics disagree. We propose \textbf{GeZo-SAC}, which uses au…

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