TaskLoom: Weaving Knowledge Across Tasks in World Models
Qingzhang Zeng, Peixi Peng, hang li, Luntong Li, Yonghong Tian
Abstract
World models have significantly improved the sample efficiency of model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) by enabling policy learning in imagination, thereby reducing the need for direct interaction with the real environment. However, most existing world model methods are trained independently for each task or perform multi-task learning using offline datasets, failing to fully exploit the latent relationships among tasks in online interactive scenarios. To address this limitation, we propose TaskLoom, a knowledge-sharing world model architecture for online RL. TaskLoom adopts a grouped two-stage training paradigm: first, the tasks are divided into several groups based on the similarity of world model gradients, and fine-grained knowledge is shared among tasks within each group; second, coarse-grained knowledge is exchanged across groups, enabling hierarchical knowledge transfer and reuse. Experimental results show that TaskLoom outperforms baseline methods on widely used benchmarks such as Proprio Control, Visual Control and Meta-World, validating the effectiveness of the proposed knowledge-sharing mechanism for both low-dimensional state and high-dimensional visual inputs.
Ask about this paper
Your agent reads all of it.
Lune indexed this paper to the last equation, along with the top-tier papers that cite it. Ask a question and the answer quotes them.
Your agent calls
Luneget_paper_fulltext
Free to start. No credit card required.
Terminal
Install the CLIlune papers fulltext f48bcbf6-9d9c-40f7-a0eb-d8e5a08aef52Builds on25
- Gradient Surgery for Multi-Task LearningTianhe Yu, Saurabh Kumar, Abhishek Gupta, Sergey Levine et al.NeurIPS 2020 · 2,261 citations
- Dream to Control: Learning Behaviors by Latent ImaginationDanijar Hafner, Timothy P. Lillicrap, Jimmy Ba, Mohammad NorouziICLR 2020 · 1,852 citations
- CURL: Contrastive Unsupervised Representations for Reinforcement LearningMichael Laskin, Aravind Srinivas, Pieter AbbeelICML 2020 · 1,261 citations
- Mastering Atari with Discrete World ModelsDanijar Hafner, Timothy P. Lillicrap, Mohammad Norouzi, Jimmy BaICLR 2021 · 1,170 citations
- Model Based Reinforcement Learning for AtariLukasz Kaiser, Mohammad Babaeizadeh, Piotr Milos, Blazej Osinski et al.ICLR 2020 · 969 citations
Related papers
- On the Feasibility of Cross-Task Transfer with Model-Based Reinforcement LearningYifan Xu, Nicklas Hansen, Zirui Wang, Yung-Chieh Chan et al.ICLR 2023 · 3 citations
- Mixture-of-World Models: Scaling Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning with Modular Latent DynamicsBoxuan Zhang, Weipu Zhang, Zhaohan Feng, Wei Xiao et al.ICLR 2026 · 1 citation
- PWM: Policy Learning with Multi-Task World ModelsIgnat Georgiev, Varun Giridhar, Nicklas Hansen, Animesh GargICLR 2025
- HarmonyDream: Task Harmonization Inside World ModelsHaoyu Ma, Jialong Wu, Ningya Feng, Chenjun Xiao et al.ICML 2024 · 21 citations
- MrCoM: A Meta-Regularized World-Model Generalizing Across Multi-ScenariosXuantang Xiong, Ni Mu, Runpeng Xie, Senhao Yang et al.AAAI 2026
