Unsupervised reinforcement learning via intrinsic motivation

[Aidan Rocke]

Hello @gdb and @joschu,

I wonder whether you have considered adding project on intrinsic motivation. Here are a few papers that have stood out to me:

1. Causal Entropic Forces
2. Empowerment introduction
3. Variational Empowerment
4. Unsupervised Real-time Control through Variational Empowerment
5. Unsupervised learning of Goal Spaces

I'm currently working in this area and have worked on practical variations of the Causal Entropic Forces paper in the past. Personally, I think that this field has a lot of potential both in terms of practical and theoretical contributions.

For concrete projects, I have several experiments and extensions/generalisations of the above papers in mind, and I'm working on such an extension, but before making this issue longer it would be useful to know whether this research area interests OpenAI.