Shared-unique Features and Task-aware Prioritized Sampling on Multi-task Reinforcement Learning

We observe that current state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods suffer from the performance imbalance issue when performing multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) tasks. While these methods may achieve impressive performance on average, they perform extremely poorly on a few tasks. To address this, we propose a new and effective method called STARS, which consists of two novel strategies: a shared-unique feature extractor and task-aware prioritized sampling. First, the shared-unique feature extractor learns both shared and task-specific features to enable better synergy of knowledge between different tasks. Second, the task-aware sampling strategy is combined with the prioritized experience replay for efficient learning on tasks with poor performance. The effectiveness and stability of our STARS are verified through experiments on the mainstream Meta-World benchmark. From the results, our STARS statistically outperforms current SOTA methods and alleviates the performance imbalance issue. Besides, we visualize the learned features to support our claims and enhance the interpretability of STARS.

3rd Place Solution for NeurIPS 2021 Shifts Challenge: Vehicle Motion Prediction

Shifts Challenge: Robustness and Uncertainty under Real-World Distributional Shift is a competition held by NeurIPS 2021. The objective of this competition is to search for methods to solve the motion prediction problem in cross-domain. In the real world dataset, It exists variance between input data distribution and ground-true data distribution, which is called the domain shift problem. In this report, we propose a new architecture inspired by state of the art papers. The main contribution is the backbone architecture with self-attention mechanism and predominant loss function. Subsequently, we won 3rd place as shown on the leaderboard.