arXiv:2505.13768cs.LGstat.ML2025-05中稿 · UAI2025被引 3

用离线数据增强在线强化学习,性能超越纯在线或纯离线方法。

Augmenting Online RL with Offline Data is All You Need: A Unified Hybrid RL Algorithm Design and Analysis

  • 统一算法融合离线数据与在线交互,提升学习效率。
  • 理论证明可实现更小的策略偏差和在线学习遗憾,优于纯在线方法。
  • 适用于需要高效探索的复杂强化学习场景,如线性上下文老虎机和马尔可夫决策过程。

本文研究一种混合强化学习框架,允许智能体同时利用离线数据集和在线交互来学习最优策略。提出统一算法与分析,表明将基于置信度的在线强化学习算法与离线数据结合,性能优于任何纯在线或纯离线算法,且在子优性差距和在线学习遗憾两个指标上达到当前最优。具体而言,算法实现子优性差距为 $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{1/(N_0/\mathtt{C}(π^*|ρ)+N_1)})$,其中 $\mathtt{C}(π^*|ρ)$ 为新提出的集中系数,$N_0$ 和 $N_1$ 分别为离线与在线样本数。对于遗憾最小化,相比纯在线学习,实现常数级 $\tilde{O}( \sqrt{N_1/(N_0/\mathtt{C}(π^{-}|ρ)+N_1)} )$ 速度提升,$\mathtt{C}(π^{-}|ρ)$ 为所有次优策略下的集中系数。理论揭示了最小化子优性差距与遗憾时对离线数据覆盖性质的不同要求。在若干特殊模型(如线性上下文老虎机、马尔可夫决策过程)中验证了理论结果。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This paper investigates a hybrid learning framework for reinforcement learning (RL) in which the agent can leverage both an offline dataset and online interactions to learn the optimal policy. We present a unified algorithm and analysis and show that augmenting confidence-based online RL algorithms with the offline dataset outperforms any pure online or offline algorithm alone and achieves state-of-the-art results under two learning metrics, i.e., sub-optimality gap and online learning regret. Specifically, we show that our algorithm achieves a sub-optimality gap $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{1/(N_0/\mathtt{C}(π^*|ρ)+N_1}) )$, where $\mathtt{C}(π^*|ρ)$ is a new concentrability coefficient, $N_0$ and $N_1$ are the numbers of offline and online samples, respectively. For regret minimization, we show that it achieves a constant $\tilde{O}( \sqrt{N_1/(N_0/\mathtt{C}(π^{-}|ρ)+N_1)} )$ speed-up compared to pure online learning, where $\mathtt{C}(π^-|ρ)$ is the concentrability coefficient over all sub-optimal policies. Our results also reveal an interesting separation on the desired coverage properties of the offline dataset for sub-optimality gap minimization and regret minimization. We further validate our theoretical findings in several experiments in special RL models such as linear contextual bandits and Markov decision processes (MDPs).

强化学习混合学习理论分析

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