SOTAVerified

SimSR: Simple Distance-based State Representation for Deep Reinforcement Learning

2021-12-31Code Available1· sign in to hype

Hongyu Zang, Xin Li, Mingzhong Wang

Code Available — Be the first to reproduce this paper.

Reproduce

Code

Abstract

This work explores how to learn robust and generalizable state representation from image-based observations with deep reinforcement learning methods. Addressing the computational complexity, stringent assumptions and representation collapse challenges in existing work of bisimulation metric, we devise Simple State Representation (SimSR) operator. SimSR enables us to design a stochastic approximation method that can practically learn the mapping functions (encoders) from observations to latent representation space. In addition to the theoretical analysis and comparison with the existing work, we experimented and compared our work with recent state-of-the-art solutions in visual MuJoCo tasks. The results shows that our model generally achieves better performance and has better robustness and good generalization.

Tasks

Reproductions