提出自适应保守性调节机制,让离线强化学习更安全且不盲目保守。
ACL-QL: Adaptive Conservative Level in Q-Learning for Offline Reinforcement Learning
- 为每个状态-动作对动态调整保守程度,避免统一过保守
- 在D4RL基准上超越现有方法,提升策略性能
- 适合追求高安全性与高效率的离线强化学习研究者
离线强化学习(Offline RL)仅依赖静态数据集训练策略,无需与环境交互,是实现安全高效控制的重要路径。现有方法通常采用保守策略缓解Q值过高估计问题,但常过度保守,导致性能下降;且对所有样本使用固定约束,缺乏对保守水平的细粒度调控。为此,本文提出自适应保守水平的Q学习框架(ACL-QL),在温和范围内限制Q值,并实现对每个状态-动作对的自适应保守性控制:对优质转移提升Q值更多,对劣质转移提升较少。理论分析揭示了保持保守水平温和的条件及自适应优化方法。基于此,设计新算法ACL-QL,引入两个可学习的自适应权重函数以调控每条转移的保守程度,并通过单调性损失与代理损失交替训练权重函数、Q函数与策略网络。在常用D4RL基准上评估,结合大量消融实验,验证了其有效性与领先性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL), which operates solely on static datasets without further interactions with the environment, provides an appealing alternative to learning a safe and promising control policy. The prevailing methods typically learn a conservative policy to mitigate the problem of Q-value overestimation, but it is prone to overdo it, leading to an overly conservative policy. Moreover, they optimize all samples equally with fixed constraints, lacking the nuanced ability to control conservative levels in a fine-grained manner. Consequently, this limitation results in a performance decline. To address the above two challenges in a united way, we propose a framework, Adaptive Conservative Level in Q-Learning (ACL-QL), which limits the Q-values in a mild range and enables adaptive control on the conservative level over each state-action pair, i.e., lifting the Q-values more for good transitions and less for bad transitions. We theoretically analyze the conditions under which the conservative level of the learned Q-function can be limited in a mild range and how to optimize each transition adaptively. Motivated by the theoretical analysis, we propose a novel algorithm, ACL-QL, which uses two learnable adaptive weight functions to control the conservative level over each transition. Subsequently, we design a monotonicity loss and surrogate losses to train the adaptive weight functions, Q-function, and policy network alternatively. We evaluate ACL-QL on the commonly used D4RL benchmark and conduct extensive ablation studies to illustrate the effectiveness and state-of-the-art performance compared to existing offline DRL baselines.
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