ACuTE: Automatic Curriculum Transfer from Simple to Complex Environments

Yash Shukla and Christopher Thierauf and Ramtin Hosseini and Gyan Tatiya and Jivko Sinapov

We formulate the curriculum transfer problem, in which the schema of a curriculum optimized in a simpler, easy-to-solve environment (e.g., a grid world) is transferred to a complex, realistic scenario (e.g., a physics-based robotics simulation or the real world). We present "ACuTE", Automatic Curriculum Transfer from Simple to Complex Environments, a novel framework to solve this problem, and evaluate our proposed method by comparing it to other baseline approaches (e.g., domain adaptation) designed to speed up learning.

@article{shuklaetal2022aamas,
  title={ACuTE: Automatic Curriculum Transfer from Simple to Complex Environments},
  author={Yash Shukla and Christopher Thierauf and Ramtin Hosseini and Gyan Tatiya and Jivko Sinapov},
  year={2022},
  journal={AAMAS},
  url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/shuklaetal2022aamas.pdf}
}