Meta-World+: An Improved, Standardized, RL Benchmark

Reginald McLean (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute Toronto Metropolitan University) · Evangelos Chatzaroulas (University of Surrey) · Luc McCutcheon (University of Surrey) · Frank Röder (Hamburg University of Technology) · Tianhe Yu (Stanford University) · Zhanpeng He (Columbia University) · K.R. Zentner (University of Southern California) · Ryan Julian (Google) · J Terry (University of Maryland College Park (SSO)) · Isaac Woungang (Toronto Metropolitan University) · Nariman Farsad (Toronto Metropolitan University) · Pablo Samuel Castro (Google DeepMind / U. de Montreal / Mila)
algorithm comparisonbenchmark designdiverse skillsevaluation frameworkliterature disambiguationmeta-reinforcement learningmeta-worldmulti-task learningopen-sourcereproducibilityskill masterytask controltask settechnical ergonomicsundocumented changes

Meta-World is widely used for evaluating multi-task and meta-reinforcement learning agents, which are challenged to master diverse skills simultaneously. Since its introduction however, there have been numerous undocumented changes which inhibit a fair comparison of algorithms. This work strives to disambiguate these results from the literature, while also leveraging the past versions of Meta-World to provide insights into multi-task and meta-reinforcement learning benchmark design. Through this process we release an open-source version of Meta-World that has full reproducibility of past results, is more technically ergonomic, and gives users more control over the tasks that are included in a task set.