Robotics RL is often imitation learning in disguise

Reward shaping, curricula, initialization, and environment design can smuggle human demonstrations into reinforcement-learning systems indirectly

Most robotics RL paper is often just imitation learning in disguise. The "human expert" transfer task through extensive reward shaping, curricula, initialization strategies, environment design, and various tricks. You are providing demonstr
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