arXiv:2501.04538cs.LG2025-01被引 4

用超网络提升强化学习,实现参数化系统控制的高效泛化。

HypeRL: Hypernetwork-Based Reinforcement Learning for Control of Parametrized Dynamical Systems

  • 通过超网络动态生成策略与价值函数权重,实现参数依赖控制。
  • 在1D柯尔莫哥洛夫方程和2D流场导航中均实现高精度控制。
  • 适合需要跨参数泛化的物理系统控制任务,如流体、机器人控制。

本文提出一种通用的强化学习方法——HypeRL,用于参数化动力系统的最优控制。这类问题广泛存在于工程与应用科学中,当控制或状态变量为高维分布或依赖可变参数时,传统数值方法(如伴随问题迭代优化或求解哈密顿-雅可比-贝尔曼方程)往往计算不可行。HypeRL采用基于演员-评论家的深度强化学习框架,直接学习最优反馈控制策略,并实现对参数变化范围的泛化能力。关键在于将参数信息编码进策略与价值函数神经网络的权重中,为此引入两个超网络,分别学习策略和价值网络的权重与偏置。在两类参数化控制问题上验证:(I) 域内控制的1维柯尔莫哥洛夫-希瓦欣斯基方程;(ii) 参数化二维涡旋流中的粒子导航问题。结果表明,融入物理与任务相关先验知识并通过超网络编码,是学习参数依赖控制策略的关键。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In this work, we devise a new, general-purpose reinforcement learning strategy for the optimal control of parametric dynamical systems. Such problems frequently arise in applied sciences and engineering and entail a significant complexity when control and/or state variables are distributed in high-dimensional space or depend on varying parameters. Traditional numerical methods, relying on either iterative minimization algorithms -- exploiting, e.g., the solution of the adjoint problem -- or dynamic programming -- also involving the solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation -- while reliable, often become computationally infeasible. In this paper, we propose HypeRL a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework to overcome the limitations shown by traditional methods. HypeRL aims at approximating the optimal control policy directly. Specifically, we employ an actor-critic DRL approach to learn an optimal feedback control strategy that can generalize across the range of variation of the parameters. To effectively learn such optimal control laws for different instances of the parameters, encoding the parameter information into the DRL policy and value function neural networks (NNs) is essential. HypeRL uses two additional NNs, called hypernetworks, to learn the weights and biases of the value function and the policy NNs. In this way, HypeRL effectively embeds the parametric information into the value function and policy. We validate the proposed approach on two parametric control problems, namely (I) a 1D parametric Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation with in-domain control, and (ii) a navigation problem of particle dynamics in a parametric 2D gyre flow. We show that the knowledge of physical and task-dependent information and the encoding of this information via a hypernetwork, are essential ingredients for learning parameter-dependent control policies.

强化学习参数化系统超网络控制理论

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