Science Space Solar System Mars For 6 days, NASA's Mars rover battled a rock More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The multi-day challenge took multiple attempts to fix. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Curiosity got itself stuck between a rock and hard place last month, but NASA says there's no reason to fret about the intrepid Mars rover . On April 25, mission engineers were remotely piloting its robotic arm's rotary-percussive drill into a Martian rock nicknamed Atacama.

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We use the same hyperparameters as in large scale curiosity: a learning rate of 0.0001 for all models, a discount factorγ of 0.99, and 3 optimization epochsperrollout. Here we present results on using audio in baselines, as described in the main paper ablations section. In the first baseline, the prediction space is concatenated audio and visual features: the intrinsic model takes an audio-visual feature vector as input and predicts an audio-visual feature vector as output. The results from the audio-visual prediction baseline are shown in Figure 9. In the second baseline, we add audio to randomnetworkdistillation[35].

Acommon formulation of curiosity-driven exploration uses the difference between the real future and the future predicted by a learned model [1].

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In off-policy deep reinforcement learning, it is usually hard to collect sufficient successful experiences with sparse rewards to learn from. Hindsight experience replay (HER) enables an agent to learn from failures by treating the achieved state of a failed experience as a pseudo goal. However, not all the failed experiences are equally useful to different learning stages, so it is not efficient to replay all of them or uniform samples of them. In this paper, we propose to 1) adaptively select the failed experiences for replay according to the proximity to the true goals and the curiosity of exploration over diverse pseudo goals, and 2) gradually change the proportion of the goal-proximity and the diversity-based curiosity in the selection criteria: we adopt a human-like learning strategy that enforces more curiosity in earlier stages and changes to larger goal-proximity later. This Curriculum-guided HER (CHER)'', which adaptively and dynamically controls the exploration-exploitation trade-off during the learning process via hindsight experience selection. We show that CHER improves the state of the art in challenging robotics environments.