Relational, Object-Centric Agents for Completing Simulated Household Tasks with Wilka Carvalho - #402

Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 5:52 p.m.

b'Today we\\u2019re joined by Wilka Carvalho, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In our conversation, we focus on his paper \\u2018ROMA: A Relational, Object-Model Learning Agent for Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning.\\u2019 In the paper, Wilka explores the challenge of object interaction tasks, focusing on every day, in-home functions. We discuss how he\\u2019s addressing the challenge of \\u2018object-interaction\\u2019 tasks, the biggest obstacles he\\u2019s run into along the way.'