Dream to Control - Learning Behaviors by Latent Imagination

Explore DeepMind's Dreamer, a revolutionary reinforcement learning agent that masters continuous control tasks through forward-imagination in latent space. Delve into the innovative approach of learning world models from high-dimensional sensory inputs using deep learning techniques. Discover how Dreamer efficiently derives behaviors by propagating analytic gradients of learned state values through imagined trajectories in a compact state space. Examine the agent's performance across 20 challenging visual control tasks, where it outperforms existing approaches in data-efficiency, computation time, and final performance. Gain insights into the algorithm, models, learning objectives, dynamics learning, behavior learning, and agency learning that power this groundbreaking AI advancement.