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Accuracy-based Curriculum Learning in Deep Reinforcement Learning

25 Jun 2018arXiv:1806.09614archive 2025-07-28

Pierre Fournier, Olivier Sigaud, Mohamed Chetouani, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

In this paper, we investigate a new form of automated curriculum learning based on adaptive selection of accuracy requirements, called accuracy-based curriculum learning. Using a reinforcement learning agent based on the Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient algorithm and addressing the Reacher environment, we first show that an agent trained with various accuracy requirements sampled randomly learns more efficiently than when asked to be very accurate at all times. Then we show that adaptive selection of accuracy requirements, based on a local measure of competence progress, automatically generates a curriculum where difficulty progressively increases, resulting in a better learning efficiency than sampling randomly.

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