- To implement the paper of Shakir Mohamed and Danilo Rezende https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08731 aka 'Variational Information Maximisation for Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning'
- To develop an understanding of the value and limitations of Empowerment for Intrinsic Control.
- Empowerment was originally introduced by Klyubin, Polani and Nehaniv (2005) here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1554676. A more comprehensive treatment from Salge, Glackin and Polani (2014) here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1863