%Aigaion2 BibTeX export from Idiap Publications %Saturday 21 December 2024 05:35:47 PM @INPROCEEDINGS{Ewerton_ICRAW_2021, author = {Ewerton, Marco and Calinon, Sylvain and Odobez, Jean-Marc}, projects = {Idiap}, title = {An Attention Mechanism for Deep Q-Networks with Applications in Robotic Pushing}, booktitle = {Proc. of Workshop on Emerging paradigms for robotic manipulation: from the lab to the productive world, ICRA}, year = {2021}, crossref = {Ewerton_Idiap-RR-03-2021} } crossreferenced publications: @TECHREPORT{Ewerton_Idiap-RR-03-2021, author = {Ewerton, Marco and Calinon, Sylvain and Odobez, Jean-Marc}, projects = {Idiap}, month = {4}, title = {An Attention Mechanism for Deep Q-Networks with Applications in Robotic Pushing}, type = {Idiap-RR}, number = {Idiap-RR-03-2021}, year = {2021}, institution = {Idiap}, abstract = {Humans effortlessly solve push tasks in everyday life but unlocking these capabilities remains a research challenge in robotics. Physical models are often inaccurate or unattainable. State-of-the-art data-driven approaches learn to compensate for these inaccuracies or get rid of the approximated physical models altogether. Nevertheless, data-driven approaches such as Deep Q-Networks (DQNs) get frequently stuck in local optima in large state-action spaces. We propose an attention mechanism for DQNs to improve their sampling efficiency and demonstrate in simulation experiments with a UR5 robot arm that such a mechanism helps the DQN learn faster and achieve higher performance in a push task involving objects with unknown dynamics.}, pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2021/Ewerton_Idiap-RR-03-2021.pdf} }