Reinforcement learning with prediction-based rewards

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OpenAI's Random Network Distillation (RND) uses prediction-based curiosity to exceed average human performance on Montezuma's Revenge for the first time.

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Excerpt

We’ve developed Random Network Distillation (RND), a prediction-based method for encouraging reinforcement learning agents to explore their environments through curiosity, which for the first time exceeds average human performance on Montezuma’s Revenge.