Danijar Hafner

Information is Power: Intrinsic Control via Information Capture

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Humans and animals explore their environment and acquire useful skills even in the absence of clear goals, exhibiting intrinsic motivation. The study of intrinsic motivation in artificial agents is concerned with the following question: what …

DayDreamer: World Models for Physical Robot Learning

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

To solve tasks in complex environments, robots need to learn from experience. Deep reinforcement learning is a common approach to robot learning but requires a large amount of trial and error to learn, limiting its …