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Deepak Pathak
CMU; curiosity-driven exploration; humanoid robotics
CMU assistant professor; co-author of the foundational 2017 paper on curiosity-driven exploration. Now leads research on humanoid robot learning at scale.
current Assistant Professor of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University; Co-founder, Skild AI
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Build AI via open-ended self-generated curricula; safety must follow from the dynamicsArgues curiosity-driven exploration in physical environments is the path to general embodied intelligence; the same principles apply across simulation and real-world robots.
We propose curiosity-driven exploration where the agent is rewarded for visiting novel states. Without external reward, the agent acquires generalizable skills that transfer to tasks it has never been trained on.
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