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New IRL Framework Enhances Reward Transfer with Decoupled Representations

Researchers have introduced ConTraIRL, a novel framework designed to improve reward transfer in Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL). This method addresses the unreliability of current IRL techniques when policies need to generalize to new environment dynamics and task goals. ConTraIRL achieves this by learning separate latent representations for dynamics and goals, enabling compositional reward transfer and demonstrating effective few-shot transfer capabilities in experiments. AI

IMPACT This framework could improve the generalization and sample efficiency of reinforcement learning agents in complex, dynamic environments.

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New IRL Framework Enhances Reward Transfer with Decoupled Representations

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yikang Gui, Bikramjit Banerjee, Prashant Doshi ·

    ConTraIRL: Factorized Contrastive Abstractions for Transferable IRL

    arXiv:2606.03017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reward transfer in Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) is unreliable when policies must generalize to unseen combinations of environment dynamics and task goals. We propose Factorized Contrastive Abstractions for Transferable IRL…