Automatic Curriculum Learning Through Value Disagreement in Reinforcement Learning
Zhang, Abbeel, Pinto · UC Berkeley & NYU · NeurIPS 2020 · Visual companion to the episode with Hal Turing & Dr. Ada Shannon
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Zhang, Abbeel, Pinto — Automatic Curriculum Learning through Value Disagreement, NeurIPS 2020. arXiv · PDF
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