Related Papers

Collection of relevant previous work on behavior priors in RL:

  • Cang, C., Rajeswaran, A., Abbeel, P., & Laskin, M. (2021). Behavioral Priors and Dynamics Models: Improving Performance and Domain Transfer in Offline RL.


  • Singh, A., Liu, H., Zhou, G., Yu, A., Rhinehart, N., & Levine, S. (2021). Parrot: Data-Driven Behavioral Priors for Reinforcement Learning.


  • Rao, D., Sadeghi, F., Hasenclever, L., Wulfmeier, M., Zambelli, M., Vezzani, G., Tirumala, D., Aytar, Y., Merel, J., Heess, N.M., & Hadsell, R. (2021). Learning Transferable Motor Skills with Hierarchical Latent Mixture Policies.


  • J. Merel, L. Hasenclever, A. Galashov, A. Ahuja, V. Pham, G. Wayne, Y. W. Teh, and N. Heess. Neural probabilistic motor primitives for humanoid control. ICLR, 2019.


  • J. Merel, S. Tunyasuvunakool, A. Ahuja, Y. Tassa, L. Hasenclever, V. Pham, T. Erez, G. Wayne, and N. Heess. Catch & carry: Reusable neural controllers for vision-guided whole-body tasks. ACM. Trans. Graph., 2020.


  • T. Shankar, S. Tulsiani, L. Pinto, and A. Gupta. Discovering motor programs by recomposing demonstrations. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2019.


  • C. Lynch, M. Khansari, T. Xiao, V. Kumar, J. Tompson, S. Levine, and P. Sermanet. Learning latent plans from play. In Conference on Robot Learning, pages 1113–1132, 2020.


  • K. Hausman, J. T. Springenberg, Z. Wang, N. Heess, and M. Riedmiller. Learning an embedding space for transferable robot skills. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2018.


  • A. Sharma, S. Gu, S. Levine, V. Kumar, and K. Hausman. Dynamics-aware unsupervised discovery of skills. ICLR, 2020.
















  • Rana, K., Dasagi, V., Talbot, B., Milford, M., and Sünderhauf, N. (2020, October). Multiplicative controller fusion: Leveraging algorithmic priors for sample-efficient reinforcement learning and safe sim-to-real transfer. In 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 6069-6076). IEEE.


  • Rana, K., Dasagi, V., Haviland, J., Talbot, B., Milford, M., and Sünderhauf, N. (2021). Bayesian Controller Fusion: Leveraging Control Priors in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotics. arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.09822.


  • Peng, X. B., Chang, M., Zhang, G., Abbeel, P., and Levine, S. (2019). Mcp: Learning composable hierarchical control with multiplicative compositional policies. arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.09808.


  • Tirumala, D., Noh, H., Galashov, A., Hasenclever, L., Ahuja, A., Wayne, G., ... and Heess, N. (2019). Exploiting hierarchy for learning and transfer in kl-regularized rl. arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.07438.