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Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning

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The Power of Simulation

A lot of the work, whether it's self play or even imitation learning, would benefit significantly from simulation. As simulators get better and better, of course, becomes stronger and we can learn more in simulation. But there's also another version which is where you say the simulator doesn't even have to be that precise. Instead of trying to get one simulator that is sufficiently precise to learn in and transfer really well to the real world, I'm gonna build many simulators. That's not identical to any one of them, but just another one of them.

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