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Self-supervised Reinforcement Learning

Self-supervised Reinforcement Learning (SSL-RL) augments standard RL training with self-supervised auxiliary objectives — such as contrastive, predictive, or data-augmentation-based tasks — applied to the agent's own experience. These objectives improve the quality of learned representations without requiring extra human labels, enabling faster convergence and better sample efficiency, especially in high-dimensional observation spaces like raw pixels.

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Self-supervised Reinforcement Learning (SSL-augmented RL)
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  • Laskin, M., Srinivas, A., & Abbeel, P. (2020). CURL: Contrastive Unsupervised Representations for Reinforcement Learning. Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), PMLR 119, 5639–5650. · URL
  • Laskin, M., Lee, K., Stooke, A., Pinto, L., Abbeel, P., & Srinivas, A. (2021). Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Data. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 33, 19884–19895. · URL
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Taxonomic bucketReinforcement Learningmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketSelf-supervised convolutional neural networkmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketSemi-supervised Reinforcement Learningmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketTransfer Learning with Reinforcement Learningmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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