让强化学习像人一样区分失误等级,提升决策能力。
Human-Inspired Multi-Level Reinforcement Learning
- 分层次提取经验信息,低层用评分机制挖掘隐藏奖励信号。
- 高层引入方向性信息,对不同失误等级加权惩罚策略分布。
- 适合需要精细行为优化的智能体,如机器人控制、游戏策略。
强化学习通常将所有经验视为等同,而人类在决策中会区分不同层级的表现并提取深层信息以优化判断。例如打网球时,完全没击中球比出界更严重,尽管两者累积奖励可能相似。为模拟这一过程,本文提出一种新型多层级强化学习方法,通过双层信息提取实现有效学习:底层利用已有评分式强化学习推断状态或动作-状态对的内在奖励信号;高层则从不同表现层级的经验中提取关键方向性信息,指导策略向期望方向调整。具体地,设计了一种新策略损失函数,对当前策略与各层级经验间的分布相似性进行加权惩罚,权重依据表现层级设定。两层信息融合使智能体同时优化奖励与策略,实现类人学习机制。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement learning (RL), a common tool in decision making, learns control policies from various experiences based on the associated cumulative return/rewards without treating them differently. Humans, on the contrary, often learn to distinguish from discrete levels of performance and extract the underlying insights/information (beyond reward signals) towards their decision optimization. For instance, when learning to play tennis, a human player does not treat all unsuccessful attempts equally. Missing the ball completely signals a more severe mistake than hitting it out of bounds (although the cumulative rewards can be similar for both cases). Learning effectively from multi-level experiences is essential in human decision making. This motivates us to develop a novel multi-level RL method that learns from multi-level experiences via extracting multi-level information. At the low level of information extraction, we utilized the existing rating-based reinforcement learning to infer inherent reward signals that illustrate the value of states or state-action pairs accordingly. At the high level of information extraction, we propose to extract important directional information from different-level experiences so that policies can be updated towards desired deviation from these different levels of experiences. Specifically, we propose a new policy loss function that penalizes distribution similarities between the current policy and different-level experiences, and assigns different weights to the penalty terms based on the performance levels. Furthermore, the integration of the two levels towards multi-level RL guides the agent toward policy improvements that benefit both reward improvement and policy improvement, hence yielding a similar learning mechanism as humans.
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