CIC: Contrastive Intrinsic Control for Unsupervised Skill Discovery
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We introduce Contrastive Intrinsic Control (CIC), an algorithm for unsupervised skill discovery that maximizes the mutual information between state-transitions and latent skill vectors. CIC utilizes contrastive learning between state-transitions and skills to learn behavior embeddings and maximizes the entropy of these embeddings as an intrinsic reward to encourage behavioral diversity. We evaluate our algorithm on the Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning Benchmark, which consists of a long reward-free pre-training phase followed by a short adaptation phase to downstream tasks with extrinsic rewards. CIC substantially improves over prior methods in terms of adaptation efficiency, outperforming prior unsupervised skill discovery methods by 1.79x and the next leading overall exploration algorithm by 1.18x.
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