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    Symmetry-Based Disentangled Representation Learning requires Interaction with Environments

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    Finding a generally accepted formal definition of a disentangled representation in the context of an agent behaving in an environment is an important challenge towards the construction of data-efficient autonomous agents. Higgins et al. (2018) recently proposed Symmetry-Based Disentangled Representation Learning, a definition based on a characterization of symmetries in the environment using group theory. We build on their work and make observations, theoretical and empirical, that lead us to argue that Symmetry-Based Disentangled Representation Learning cannot only be based on static observations: agents should interact with the environment to discover its symmetries. Our experiments can be reproduced in Colab and the code is available on GitHub

    Fast and Incremental Method for Loop-Closure Detection Using Bags of Visual Words

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    Incremental vision-based topological SLAM

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    Real-time visual loop-closure detection

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    On the Sensory Commutativity of Action Sequences for Embodied Agents

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    Perception of artificial agents is one the grand challenges of AI research. Deep Learning and data-driven approaches are successful on constrained problems where perception can be learned using supervision, but do not scale to open-worlds. In such case, for autonomous embodied agents with first-person sensors, perception can be learned end-to-end to solve particular tasks. However, literature shows that perception is not a purely passive compression mechanism, and that actions play an important role in the formulation of abstract representations. We propose to study perception for these embodied agents, under the mathematical formalism of group theory in order to make the link between perception and action. In particular, we consider the commutative properties of continuous action sequences with respect to sensory information perceived by such an embodied agent. We introduce the Sensory Commutativity Probability (SCP) criterion which measures how much an agent's degree of freedom affects the environment in embodied scenarios. We show how to compute this criterion in different environments, including realistic robotic setups. We empirically illustrate how SCP and the commutative properties of action sequences can be used to learn about objects in the environment and improve sample-efficiency in Reinforcement Learning
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