arXiv:2505.11661cs.AI2025-05被引 3

用可微符号规划让强化学习少试错,更快学会分步解决问题。

Learning from Less: Guiding Deep Reinforcement Learning with Differentiable Symbolic Planning

  • 将人类分步决策先验融入奖励设计,动态引导智能体探索。
  • 在多个任务上减少训练步数,提升未见任务的泛化能力。
  • 适合想提升强化学习效率的研究者与工程师。

面对复杂任务时,人类会分解为小步骤并根据观察调整计划。例如想在朋友家煮咖啡,若发现咖啡机已满,便会跳过取豆步骤直接开始冲泡。而当前先进的强化学习算法(如PPO)缺乏此类先验知识,需大量训练才能实现类似适应性。为此,我们提出可微符号规划器(Dylan),将符号规划嵌入强化学习。Dylan作为奖励模型,利用人类先验动态调整奖励,引导智能体完成中间子任务,实现更高效的探索。此外,Dylan还可作为高层规划器,组合基础策略生成新行为,避免传统符号规划中无限循环等缺陷。实验表明,Dylan显著提升强化学习性能,并增强对未见任务的泛化能力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

When tackling complex problems, humans naturally break them down into smaller, manageable subtasks and adjust their initial plans based on observations. For instance, if you want to make coffee at a friend's place, you might initially plan to grab coffee beans, go to the coffee machine, and pour them into the machine. Upon noticing that the machine is full, you would skip the initial steps and proceed directly to brewing. In stark contrast, state of the art reinforcement learners, such as Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), lack such prior knowledge and therefore require significantly more training steps to exhibit comparable adaptive behavior. Thus, a central research question arises: \textit{How can we enable reinforcement learning (RL) agents to have similar ``human priors'', allowing the agent to learn with fewer training interactions?} To address this challenge, we propose differentiable symbolic planner (Dylan), a novel framework that integrates symbolic planning into Reinforcement Learning. Dylan serves as a reward model that dynamically shapes rewards by leveraging human priors, guiding agents through intermediate subtasks, thus enabling more efficient exploration. Beyond reward shaping, Dylan can work as a high level planner that composes primitive policies to generate new behaviors while avoiding common symbolic planner pitfalls such as infinite execution loops. Our experimental evaluations demonstrate that Dylan significantly improves RL agents' performance and facilitates generalization to unseen tasks.

强化学习符号规划奖励塑形高效学习

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