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Pieter Abbeel: Deep Reinforcement Learning

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Are You Interested in Self Play?

Self play is a form of imitation learning that can be used to teach robots new skills. In self play, you're on both sides - one succeeds and the other fails. The challenge in reinforcement learning is getting signal; if you don't never succeed, you don't get any signal. So I think if somehow we can turn more reinforcement learning problems into self play formulations, that would go really, really far.

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