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Causal Information Prioritization for Efficient Reinforcement Learning

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Pith's one-line read The paper claims that a reinforcement-learning agent becomes dramatically more sample-efficient when it first learns which state and action dimensions causally drive reward, then swaps unrelated state variables across trajectories to…

desk verdict Strong empirical package, but the causal mechanism at the core is not justified, so the paper as written overclaims. read the letter →

arxiv 2502.10097 v1 pith:742HC3TB submitted 2025-02-14 cs.AI cs.LG

classification cs.AIcs.LG
keywords causalreinforcementlearningsampleefficiencyfactoredMDPcounterfactualdataaugmentationempowermentdiscoveryDirectLiNGAMcontinuouscontrol
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The reading

CIP is a reinforcement-learning method that infers which state and action dimensions causally affect the reward, and then concentrates learning on those dimensions to cut sample complexity. It does this in two ways: by swapping causally irrelevant state variables across collected transitions to synthesize extra training data, and by reweighting actions according to their learned causal influence while maximizing a causality-aware empowerment objective. The paper claims this combination consistently outperforms strong baselines across 39 continuous-control tasks, including sparse-reward and pixel-based settings, with near-100% success on the Meta-World and Adroit door manipulation benchmarks. If true, it offers a practical recipe for making RL sample-efficient in real-world robotics, where environment interactions are expensive.

What carries the argument

The central object is the reward-guided causal mask pair $(M^{s\to r}, M^{a\to r})$ learned from a factored MDP, together with the uncontrollable set $U_s = \{s_i \mid M^{s\to r}\cdot(s_i^t, r_t) < \theta\}$. The uncontrollable set drives counterfactual data augmentation: variables in $U_s$ are assumed to be exchangeable across transitions, and swapping them generates synthetic training data that emphasize causally relevant state dimensions. The action mask $M^{a\to r}$ then reweights actions, and the causality-aware empowerment objective $E^{\pi_c}(s) = \max_a I(a_t; s_{t+1}\mid s_t; M)$, computed as the entropy difference between the policy and an inverse dynamics model (each weighted by $M^{a\to r}$), is added to the Bellman target $T^{\pi_c}Q = r(s_t, a_t) + \gamma E[Q(s_{t+1}, a_{t+1}) + \alpha E^{\pi_c}(s)]$. The mutual-information objective is what converts the passive causal masks into an exploration bonus that prefers actions with predictable, causally relevant consequences.

What would settle it

Construct a factored MDP where $s_1 \to s_2 \to r$ and $s_1$ has no direct edge to $r$. Since DirectLiNGAM estimates linear direct effects, $s_1$ could fall into the uncontrollable set; if CIP then swaps $s_1$ across trajectories, the synthetic transitions mix inconsistent $s_1$–$s_2$ pairs and the learned policy should degrade relative to CIP with augmentation disabled, or relative to a variant that masks $s_1$ entirely. Running that comparison would settle whether the counterfactual swap assumption holds.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

CIP treats the environment as a factored MDP whose reward is $r_t = R(M^{s\to r}\odot s_t, M^{a\to r}\odot a_t, \epsilon_{r,t})$, where the binary/weight matrices $M^{s\to r}$ and $M^{a\to r}$ encode which state and action dimensions causally influence reward. It learns these masks with DirectLiNGAM from collected trajectories. State dimensions with no edge to the reward form the 'uncontrollable set' $U_s$; pairs of transitions sharing uncontrollable variables are counterfactually augmented by swapping those variables, producing synthetic tuples $(\tilde s_t, \tilde a_t, \tilde s_{t+1}, \tilde r_t)$ without additional environment interaction. Separately, the learned action-reward weights $\omega$ reweight actions, and a causality-aware empowerment objective $E^{\pi_c}(s) = H(\pi_c(a_t|s_t)) - H(\pi_c(a_t|s_t, s_{t+1}))$ (with each entropy term masked by $M^{a\to r}$) is added to the Bellman update. The paper's central claim is that this combination, counterfactual state-swapping plus causally reweighted empowerment, is what makes policies learn faster and reach near-perfect success on tasks like Adroit door opening where baseline SAC, ACE, and BAC barely progress.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that any state variable with no direct causal edge to the reward can be swapped across transitions without changing the dynamics or reward: the paper assumes such variables have no indirect influence through other state dimensions, and it neither proves nor tests this.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • On the 17 Meta-World robot-arm tasks, CIP reaches a near-perfect normalized score of 100, and it achieves a near-100% success rate on the 28-dimensional Adroit door task where SAC, BAC, and ACE make little progress.
  • Ablations show that removing the empowerment term hurts performance the most, and removing counterfactual data augmentation reduces sample efficiency, so both components carry the reported gains.
  • CIP's state-swapping augmentation works without extra environment interaction, which is what makes its sample-efficiency gains not an artifact of more data.
  • In pixel-based DMControl tasks, CIP combined with IFactor's latent states outperforms IFactor alone, indicating the causal prioritization transfers to high-dimensional observations.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A testable extension: on environments where a state variable has no direct edge to reward but acts indirectly through another state variable, CIP's swap creates invalid transitions; a variant that masks such variables instead of swapping them should reveal whether the augmentation's validity assumption is doing the work.
  • If the causal masks are accurate, the empowerment objective is essentially a controllability bonus over causally relevant action dimensions; one could drop the causal discovery step and use learned action importance to see how much of the gain is causal versus merely dimensional attention.
  • The paper's own future-work list joins CIP with object-centric world models; a concrete next step would reuse $M^{s\to r}$ as a sparsification prior on object attributes in a 3D manipulation context.
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Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. This paper proposes Causal Information Prioritization (CIP), a reinforcement learning method that uses causal discovery (DirectLiNGAM) on collected transitions to estimate state-to-reward and action-to-reward causal matrices, then uses the state-to-reward matrix to perform counterfactual data augmentation by swapping state variables that have no direct edge to the reward, reweights actions by the action-to-reward matrix, and adds a causality-aware empowerment term to the policy objective. The method is evaluated on 36 (or 39, the text is inconsistent) continuous control tasks, including locomotion, manipulation, sparse-reward, and pixel-based settings, and is reported to outperform SAC, ACE, BAC, and IFactor in most tasks. The paper also includes ablations, hyperparameter sensitivity analyses, and a generalization study on MT1/MT10.

Significance. The paper addresses an important problem—sample efficiency in reinforcement learning—and the idea of using causal structure to guide data augmentation and exploration is timely. The experimental scope is unusually broad: 5 environments, pixel-based and sparse-reward variants, 4 random seeds, and statistical analyses (pairwise t-tests, IQM, optimality gap). The authors provide code in the supplementary material and report computation costs. If the causal mechanism were sound, the near-100% success rates on Meta-World and Adroit Hand would be a substantial contribution. However, the theoretical foundation is not established: the counterfactual augmentation relies on an exchangeability assumption that is neither proved nor tested and is generally false in factored MDPs with cross-variable dependencies; the identifiability theorem is asserted without proof and is incompatible with the nonlinear reward functions in Eq. (2); and the empowerment objective in Eqs. (5)-(9) is not internally consistent. These gaps undermine the causal interpretation of the empirical gains.

major comments (4)
  1. [Section 4.1, Eq. (4)] The counterfactual augmentation step is valid only if the swapped variables are causally isolated, i.e., they have no influence on the reward or on any other state variable at any time. The uncontrollable set U_s in Eq. (4) is defined by the absence of a direct edge s_i^t → r_t, but a variable without a direct edge can still influence the reward through indirect paths, e.g., s_i^t → s_j^t → r_t or s_i^t → s_j^{t+1} → r_{t+1}, and the transition dynamics couple the swapped components to the unswapped ones. Swapping (s_i^t, s_i^{t+1}) across trajectories while leaving the other coordinates unchanged therefore produces tuples (s̃_t, a_t, s̃_{t+1}, r_t) that are not realizable transitions of the MDP. Assumption 4 (self-loop edges) and Propositions 1-2 (direct edges to reward) do not rule out such couplings. The paper neither proves the required exchangeability nor tests whether the augmented transitions are dynamically consistent; this is the central mechanism of the claimed improvement.
  2. [Appendix B, Theorem 1] Theorem 1 asserts that the causal matrices M^{s→r} and M^{a→r} are identifiable from the factored-MDP reward model, but the proof is omitted; Proposition 2's proof is also deferred with 'a similar line of reasoning.' More importantly, the identifiability statement is incompatible with the unrestricted reward function R in Eq. (2): DirectLiNGAM assumes a linear non-Gaussian structural equation model, while continuous-control reward functions are generally nonlinear (e.g., quadratic penalties, contact terms). No identifiability result for the nonlinear case is provided, and Appendix D.3.7 compares DirectLiNGAM only with GES and PC, not against known ground-truth graphs. Because the causal matrices are the sole basis for both the augmentation and the action reweighting, this gap is load-bearing.
  3. [Section 4.2 and Algorithm 1] The action-reward causal matrix M^{a→r} is learned from a local buffer that already contains the synthetic transitions generated by the state-reward model in Step 1 (Algorithm 1: augmented transitions are added to D_c, and Step 2 samples D_a from D_c). This creates a feedback loop in which errors in the state-reward mask and in the swap operation propagate into the action-reward weights, which then reweight actions, influence the policy, and affect future data collection. The paper provides no analysis of how this self-training loop affects the reliability of the causal estimates; in particular, invalid augmentations can reinforce initial errors rather than be corrected. This concern is material because the action reweighting and empowerment objective depend on M^{a→r}.
  4. [Section 4.2, Eqs. (5)-(9)] The derivation of the causality-aware empowerment objective is internally inconsistent. Eq. (5) defines the objective as a mutual information, but Eqs. (6)-(7) insert the causal weights M^{a_i→r} as multiplicative factors inside the entropy summands, and Eq. (8) drops the weights entirely when writing the log-ratio form. Eq. (9) adds αE^{φ_c}(s) inside the expectation over a_t, although the empowerment term as defined is a function of the policy and state, not of the sampled action. If the objective is a heuristic reward-shaping term, this should be stated explicitly; as written, the learning objective in Eq. (8) cannot be derived from Eqs. (6)-(7), and the causal action reweighting ('reweight them as (ω_1 a_1, ...)') is never specified in the algorithm or the implementation details.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Abstract, Section 5.1, Figure 3, Figure 4] Inconsistent task counts: the Abstract and Conclusion state 39 tasks, while Section 5.1, Figure 3, and Figure 4 state 36 tasks; the pixel-based section mentions 3 DMControl tasks but Figure 6 includes 4 tasks (including Cartpole). Please reconcile these numbers.
  2. [Algorithm 1] In Algorithm 1, Step 1's comment says 'Learn causal mask matrix M^{a→r}' but the context requires M^{s→r}; this is a typo that obscures the pipeline.
  3. [Appendix D.3.7 and Figure 15] The causal discovery comparison refers to 'DirectLiNAM' (twice) instead of DirectLiNGAM; also 'ReacherEeasy' appears in Figure 15. These typos should be fixed.
  4. [Section 5.3, Figure 8] The reliability evaluation excludes the Adroit Hand door task 'due to CIP's exceptional performance there'; excluding a task on this basis can bias the optimality-gap comparison and should be justified or documented as a sensitivity analysis.
  5. [Section 5.2, Table 1] The claim that CIP 'consistently outperforms' is stronger than the evidence in Table 1: pairwise t-tests show significant superiority in only 5 of 8 locomotion tasks, and BAC has a higher mean return on Ant. The text should be qualified accordingly.

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No significant circularity: the benchmark gains are externally evaluated, and the fitted causal masks are an algorithmic design rather than a prediction derived from themselves.

full rationale

The paper's central claim is an empirical one: CIP improves sample efficiency on external continuous-control benchmarks. The causal matrices M^{s->r} and M^{a->r} are learned from the replay buffer and then used to construct augmented transitions and action weights, so the pipeline is self-referential in the sense that fitted quantities shape the training data and objective. However, the reported success rates and returns are measured on the real environments, not on quantities that are equal to the fitted matrices by construction. The augmentation validity rests on the unproven assumption that state variables with no direct edge to the reward have no indirect influence through other variables or dynamics; this is a correctness and generalizability concern, not a circular reduction of the paper's own equations. Similarly, DirectLiNGAM's linear non-Gaussian assumption is not established for the nonlinear reward in Eq. 2, which is again a modeling-validity issue rather than circularity. The self-citations (Cao et al., 2023; Cao et al., 2024) are positional or contrastive and are not load-bearing for the main derivation. Hyperparameters such as alpha are tuned on the reported tasks, but this is ordinary experimental tuning and does not make the empirical comparison circular. Overall, no derivation step reduces to its own inputs by definition or by a fitted-parameter-as-prediction construction.

Assumptions & free parameters 6 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on fitted causal matrices, several hand-tuned hyperparameters, and strong structural assumptions about factorized MDPs and DirectLiNGAM. No new physical entities are introduced. The most fragile items are the exchangeability assumption for counterfactual swaps and the linearity assumption on reward functions.

free parameters (6)
  • causal threshold theta = not specified
    Eq. 4 classifies state dimensions as uncontrollable if M s->r . (s_i,t, r_t) < theta; no value or sensitivity analysis is given, yet it determines which features are swapped.
  • empowerment temperature alpha = 0.2
    Appendix D.3.3 reports alpha=0.2 was chosen after comparing 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, and 1.0 across tasks; it weights the empowerment term in Eq. 9 and is tuned on the reported tasks.
  • causal update interval I = 2
    Appendix D.3.3 states I=2 with sample size 10,000 was chosen as optimal; this controls how often causal discovery runs.
  • causal sample size = 10,000
    Same hyperparameter analysis chooses 10,000 for the local causal buffer; the paper notes higher frequencies and sizes increase instability and computation.
  • batch size / hidden size = 512/1024 (manipulation), 256/256 (locomotion)
    Table 3 and Appendix D.3.3 specify different settings per environment, tuned on performance, so these are hand-chosen values the central results depend on.
  • causal weight matrices from DirectLiNGAM = per-task matrices M s->r and M a->r
    The adjacency and weight matrices are fitted from the replay buffer via DirectLiNGAM and drive both data augmentation and action reweighting; they are data-fitted values the central mechanism depends on.
assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption Global Markov condition and faithfulness
    Assumptions 2 and 3 in Appendix B are required for the d-separation-based identifiability of the causal matrices; these are standard but not verified in continuous-control data.
  • domain assumption Full observability and Markovian dynamics
    Assumption 2 states the state is fully observable and dynamics Markovian; needed for the causal structure learning to apply directly to raw state features.
  • domain assumption Edge s_i,t -> s_i,t+1 exists for all state variables
    Assumption 4 in Appendix B; required for the factored MDP transition structure but may not hold for all variables (e.g., static goal coordinates).
  • domain assumption No simultaneous or backward edges in time
    Assumption 5 in Appendix B; used to order variables in the causal graph, though DirectLiNGAM models contemporaneous edges within a time slice.
  • ad hoc to paper Reward/state/action relations are linear with non-Gaussian noise
    DirectLiNGAM (Section 4) assumes a linear SEM, but the factored MDP reward in Eq. 2 is written with a general R and Gaussian noise; no argument shows linearity holds for MuJoCo or Meta-World rewards.
  • ad hoc to paper Exchangeability of uncontrollable state variables across transitions
    Section 4.1 assumes swapping s_i,t and s_i,t+1 across trajectories sharing the uncontrollable sub-graph preserves the reward and transition dynamics; this is asserted without proof and is unlikely if swapped variables affect other state dimensions.

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  title        = {Pith review of: Causal Information Prioritization for Efficient Reinforcement Learning},
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Current Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods often suffer from sample-inefficiency, resulting from blind exploration strategies that neglect causal relationships among states, actions, and rewards. Although recent causal approaches aim to address this problem, they lack grounded modeling of reward-guided causal understanding of states and actions for goal-orientation, thus impairing learning efficiency. To tackle this issue, we propose a novel method named Causal Information Prioritization (CIP) that improves sample efficiency by leveraging factored MDPs to infer causal relationships between different dimensions of states and actions with respect to rewards, enabling the prioritization of causal information. Specifically, CIP identifies and leverages causal relationships between states and rewards to execute counterfactual data augmentation to prioritize high-impact state features under the causal understanding of the environments. Moreover, CIP integrates a causality-aware empowerment learning objective, which significantly enhances the agent's execution of reward-guided actions for more efficient exploration in complex environments. To fully assess the effectiveness of CIP, we conduct extensive experiments across 39 tasks in 5 diverse continuous control environments, encompassing both locomotion and manipulation skills learning with pixel-based and sparse reward settings. Experimental results demonstrate that CIP consistently outperforms existing RL methods across a wide range of scenarios.

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Figure 1. (a). An example of a robot manipulation soccer task with three trajectories, where the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. (a) Underlying causal structure of CIP. (b) The whole learning process of CIP includes counterfactual data augmentation, causal action reweight and causal action empowerment. framework, the empowerment is defined as the mutual information between the agent state st+1 and action at, conditioned on the present state st and causal mask M, as shown follows: E := max π I(at; st+1 | st, M), (3) where E denotes the channel… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. The 36 experimental tasks in 5 continuous control environments 0 20 40 60 80 100 Normalized Score CIP ACE BAC SAC Meta-World 17 tasks 0 20 40 60 80 100 CIP ACE BAC SAC DMControl 11 tasks 0 20 40 60 80 100 CIP ACE BAC SAC Mujoco 4 tasks 0 20 40 60 80 100 CIP ACE BAC SAC Adroit Hand 1 task 0 20 40 60 80 100 CIP ACE BAC SAC Sparse reward 3 tasks [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Experimental results with normalized score across all [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Experimental results of 8 manipulation skill learning tasks in Meta-World and adroit hand environments including sparse reward settings. For all tasks results, please refer to Appendix D.2. 0 250 500 750 1000 Environment steps (1e3) 0 200 400 600 800 Average return Che…
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Experimental results of 4 pixel-based tasks in DMControl and Cartpole environments. 5 EXPERIMENTS Our experiments aim to address the following questions: (i) How does the performance of CIP compare to other RL approaches in diverse continuous control tasks, including m…
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Experimental results with average return across [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Experimental results of reliability evaluation by the metric Optimality Gap (lower values [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Experimental results across 17 manipulation skill learning tasks in Meta-World. performance to BAC, which is known for its proficiency in control tasks. The visualization results reveal that CIP effectively executes running and walking actions in complex humanoid scena…
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Visualization of the trajectories in soccer task. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Visualization trajectories of 4 manipulation skill learning tasks in Meta-World environment. time Adroit hand door [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Visualization trajectory of Adroit Hand door open task. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Experimental results across 3 manipulation skill learning tasks in sparse reward settings of Meta-World environment. 24 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_13.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Visualization trajectories of 3 manipulation skill learning tasks in sparse reward settings of Meta-World environment. 0 500 1000 Environment steps (1e3) 0 200 400 600 800 1000 Average return CheetahRun 0 500 1000 Environment steps (1e3) 0 200 400 600 800 1000 HopperS…
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Experimental results across 11 locomotion tasks in DMControl environment. 25 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_15.png]
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Visualization trajectories of 4 locomotion tasks in DMControl environment. 26 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_16.png]
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Figure 17. Figure 17: The DMControl environment of 3 pxiel-based tasks (Walker Walk, Cheetah Run, Reacher Easy) and 1 task in Cartpole environment (Liu et al., 2024). time Cheetah Run Reacher Easy Walker Walk [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_17.png]
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Visualization trajectories in 3 pixel-based locomotion tasks of DMControl environment with video backgrounds as distractors. D.2.4 EFFECTIVENESS IN PIXEL-BASED TASKS To further validate the effectiveness of our proposed framework in pixel-based environments, we evalua…
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Experimental results in 4 manipulation skill learning tasks of Meta-World environment. w/i stands for with. 0 500 1000 Environment steps (1e3) 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 Success rate sparse: door open 0 500 1000 Environment steps (1e3) 0.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 1.00 sparse: h…
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Experimental results in 3 manipulation skill learning tasks of Meta-World environment with sparse reward settings. CIP w/i Cs, underscoring the value of our counterfactual data augmentation approach in enhancing training data without additional environmental interacti…
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Experimental results in 4 locomotion tasks of DMControl environment. also ensures that the agent can effectively navigate sparse reward scenarios by focusing on the most relevant causal information. Locomotion We further conducted ablation experiments on locomotion ta…
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Ablation results across 21 manipulation skill learning tasks in Meta-World including sparse reward settings and adroit hand. D.3.4 COMPUTATION COST ANALYSIS We analyze the computational cost of the proposed framework. The computation time for all methods across 36 tas…
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Ablation results across 4 locomotion tasks in MuJoCo environment. 0 500 1000 Environment steps 0 200 400 600 800 1000 Average return CheetahRun 0 500 1000 Environment steps 0 200 400 600 800 1000 HopperStand 0 500 1000 Environment steps 0 250 500 750 1000 QuadrupedWal…
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Ablation results across 11 locomotion tasks in DMControl environment. D.3.5 STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS To further validate the statistical significance of the performance, we select 3 statistical metrics (Agar￾wal et al., 2021) - IQM, Mean, and Median - for anal…
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Figure 25. Figure 25: Hyperparameter study. Learning curves of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_25.png]
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Figure 26. Figure 26: Hyperparameter analysis of temperature factor [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_26.png]
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Figure 27. Figure 27: Hyperparameter analysis of batch size and hidden size across [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_27.png]
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Figure 28. Figure 28: Computation time in 36 tasks. discovers causal relationships between dimensional factors in states and actions with respect to rewards. This approach better aligns with the requirements of policy learning while maintaining minimal computational costs. 33 [PITH_FULL_I…
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Figure 29. Figure 29: statistical metrics of IQM, Mean, and Median (higher values are better) on 4 DMControl [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_29.png]
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Figure 30. Figure 30: statistical metrics of IQM, Mean, and Median (higher values are better) on 4 MuJoCo [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_30.png]
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Figure 31. Figure 31: Generalization results in MT1 and MT10 tasks. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_31.png]
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Figure 32. Figure 32: Compared performance with 2 different causal discovery methods across 3 task. E DETAILS ON THE PROPOSED FRAMEWORK Algorithm 1 lists the full pipeline of CIP below. F EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORMS AND LICENSES F.1 EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORMS All experiments of this approach are im…

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