A paper examines consolidating reinforcement-learning specialists into a multitask model, using off-policy distillation for initialization and on-policy distillation for refinement.
The paper studies consolidating specialist models, trained with reinforcement learning for specific tasks, into a single multitask model through distillation. The approach is presented as an alternative to training one model directly on combined tasks.
The described process has two stages: off-policy distillation initializes the consolidated model; on-policy distillation then refines it. The text also examines a limitation of the off-policy stage in multitask settings.
To analyze the approach, first identify which tasks and specialists are included in consolidation. Then separate the role assigned to each stage and note how the paper compares the method with training on combined tasks.
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