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Learning Multi-Objective Curricula for Robotic Policy Learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Various automatic curriculum learning (ACL) methods have been proposed to improve the sample efficiency and final performance of deep reinforcement learning (DRL). They are designed to control how a DRL agent collects data, which is inspired by how humans gradually adapt their learning processes to their capabilities. For example, ACL can be used for subgoal generation, reward shaping, environment generation, or initial state generation. However, prior work only considers curriculum learning following one of the aforementioned predefined paradigms. It is unclear which of these paradigms are complementary, and how the combination of them can be learned from interactions with the environment. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a unified automatic curriculum learning framework to create multi-objective but coherent curricula that are generated by a set of parametric curriculum modules. Each curriculum module is instantiated as a neural network and is responsible for generating a particular curriculum. In order to coordinate those potentially conflicting modules in unified parameter space, we propose a multi-task hyper-net learning framework that uses a single hyper-net to parameterize all those curriculum modules. In addition to existing hand-designed curricula paradigms, we further design a flexible memory mechanism to learn an abstract curriculum, which may otherwise be difficult to design manually. We evaluate our method on a series of robotic manipulation tasks and demonstrate its superiority over other state-of-the-art ACL methods in terms of sample efficiency and final performance.


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This is an Introductory course so please buy it if you are a beginner and you want to know more about how the computer works within. Please go through the free preview video before buying that is the introduction part and others so that you will get an idea about what this course is about. The central processing unit (CPU), input devices, and output devices are the three components that make up the basic structure of a computer system. The Central Processing Unit (CPU) can also be separated into two parts: the control unit (CU) and the arithmetic logic unit (ALU). The basic structure of a computer describes a simple concept: data is entered into the central processing unit using input devices such as a keyboard, mouse, joystick, scanner, secondary storage devices, and so on, and when the central processing unit receives the data from the input devices, it has a pre-programmed set of instructions to follow, and the result of instruction execution is the output.


Why I think strong general AI is coming soon - LessWrong

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I think there is little time left before someone builds AGI (median 2030). Once upon a time, I didn't think this. This post attempts to walk through some of the observations and insights that collapsed my estimates. A single invocation of GPT-3, or any large transformer, cannot run any algorithm internally that does not run in constant time complexity, because the model itself runs in constant time. It's a very large constant, but it is still a constant. They don't have any learnable memory about their internal state from previous invocations. They just have the input stream. Despite all their capability, transformers are fundamentally limited.[1] This is part of the reason why asking GPT-3 to do integer division on large numbers in one shot doesn't work. GPT-3 is big enough to memorize a number of results, so adding small numbers isn't too hard even without fine tuning. And GPT-3 is big enough to encode a finite number of unrolled steps for more complex algorithms, so in principle, fine tuning it on a bunch of arithmetic could get you better performance on somewhat more complex tasks. But no matter how much retraining you do, so long as you keep GPT-3's architecture the same, you will be able to find some arithmetic problem it can't do in one step because the numbers involved would require too many internal steps. So, with that kind of limitation, obviously transformers fail to do basic tasks like checking whether a set of parentheses are balanced... Oh wait, GPT-3 was just writing dialogue for a character that didn't know how to balance parentheses, and then wrote the human's side of the dialogue correcting that character's error. And it writes stories with a little assistance with long-run consistency. And it can generate functioning code. Some of this is already productized. This is an architecture that is provably incapable of internally dividing large integers, and it can handle a variety of difficult tasks that come uncomfortably close to human intuition. Could the kind of intelligence we care about be algorithmically simpler than integer division? This can't be literally true, if we want to include integer division as something a generally intelligent agent can do. But it sure looks like tractable constant time token predictors already capture a bunch of what we often call intelligence, even when those same systems can't divide! I'm raising my eyebrows right now to emphasize it!


UAV-assisted Online Machine Learning over Multi-Tiered Networks: A Hierarchical Nested Personalized Federated Learning Approach

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We investigate training machine learning (ML) models across a set of geo-distributed, resource-constrained clusters of devices through unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) swarms. The presence of time-varying data heterogeneity and computational resource inadequacy among device clusters motivate four key parts of our methodology: (i) stratified UAV swarms of leader, worker, and coordinator UAVs, (ii) hierarchical nested personalized federated learning (HN-PFL), a distributed ML framework for personalized model training across the worker-leader-core network hierarchy, (iii) cooperative UAV resource pooling to address computational inadequacy of devices by conducting model training among the UAV swarms, and (iv) model/concept drift to model time-varying data distributions. In doing so, we consider both micro (i.e., UAV-level) and macro (i.e., swarm-level) system design. At the micro-level, we propose network-aware HN-PFL, where we distributively orchestrate UAVs inside swarms to optimize energy consumption and ML model performance with performance guarantees. At the macro-level, we focus on swarm trajectory and learning duration design, which we formulate as a sequential decision making problem tackled via deep reinforcement learning. Our simulations demonstrate the improvements achieved by our methodology in terms of ML performance, network resource savings, and swarm trajectory efficiency.


What is the inherent connection between Robotics and AI?

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been the two hot trending technologies for quite a while now. However, the interest in these new-age technologies peaked significantly right after the onset of coronavirus, when the world was looking forward to digital tools and platforms for sustenance. According to an IDC report, the global revenue of the AI market touched US$ 156.5 billion, marking a jump of 12.3% from 2019. This trend is only bound to rise further up in the next few years. Of all the diverse fields of artificial intelligence, robotics has gained massive popularity across industries, and rightly so.


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Join Dr. Kirk Borne's Applied Machine Learning Live Course - KDnuggets

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Apply now to join Dr. Kirk Borne's live interactive course, starting on November 10. In this live course with Dr. Kirk Borne, you will build up your theoretical and practical knowledge so that you can understand how to identify ML problems, choose the right algorithms for solving the problem at hand, build robust models in Python, and explain your models and communicate their results in common business language for colleagues, clients, and executives. Dr. Kirk Borne is a data science leader and research astrophysicist. He was a Principal Data Scientist, Data Science Fellow, and Executive Advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton. He was also a professor of Astrophysics and Computational Science at George Mason University where he designed one of the first Data Science programs.


70 Completely FREE Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Online Courses

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This course will teach machine learning concepts with Tensorflow. In this course, you will explore a large dataset using Datalab and BigQuery, and learn how to use Pandas in Datalab, and sample a dataset for local development. Then you will develop a machine learning model in Tensorflow and operationalize the model. In the end, this course explains how to preprocess data at scale for machine learning and lets you train a machine learning model at scale on the Cloud AI Platform.


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[FREE] Arduino For Complete Beginners: Robotics Controllers Intro

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Udemy is the biggest website in the world that offer courses in many categories, all the skills that you would be looking for are offered in Udemy, including languages, design, marketing and a lot of other categories, so when you ever want to buy a courses and pay for a new skills, Udemy would be the best forum for you. You can find payment courses, 100 free courses and coupons also, more than 12 categories are offered, and that what makes sure you will find the domain and the skill you are looking for. Our duty is to search for 100 off courses and free coupons. The purpose of this mini-course is to get you comfortable using Arduino, a common robotics controller platform, so that you can use it for the upcoming projects in the main course. By the end of this mini-course, you will understand the key electronics and Arduino-related concepts that will help you succeed throughout the rest of the main course.