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Visual Foresight: Local Dynamics Model

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This lecture presents the paper 'Visual Foresight With a Local Dynamics Model' by C. Kohler and R. Platt from Northeastern University. The lecture covers the use of a local dynamics model to learn pick and place actions, combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning in the spatial action space.

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