Training agents on their own trajectories accelerates reward-based learning

A teacher-guided warmup improved early reward discovery and subsequent reinforcement learning in interactive agent tasks.

Chinese Tech
Yitong Qiao · Tiantian He · Lei Liu · Yue Shen · Jian Wang · Jinjie Gu · +1 more

Zhejiang University · Ant Healthcare · Ant Group

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The authors trained an agent to interact with an environment, letting the student choose actions while a fixed teacher supplied supervision for the states the student actually encountered.

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On-policy warmup using teacher supervision on student trajectories accelerates and improves agentic reinforcement learning under sparse rewards.

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