@NoahZiems: Our recent work on Pedagogical RL is out!
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Announcement of a research paper on Pedagogical RL, which proposes using privileged information to actively sample trajectories that RL algorithms typically miss.
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Our recent work on Pedagogical RL is out!
Souradip Chakraborty (@SOURADIPCHAKR18): 🚨Typical RL algorithms and on-policy distillation methods are blind samplers: they use privileged info to score rollouts, but not to find them.
We ask: can we use privileged info to actively sample the rollouts RL wishes it can stumble upon with compute?
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