用专家混合架构解决大规模多任务强化学习的性能退化问题
Mastering Massive Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning via Mixture-of-Expert Decision Transformer
- 采用专家混合框架,按任务分配参数子集以降低负担
- 在160个任务上实现优异性能,模型扩展时表现持续提升
- 适合需要处理海量任务的强化学习系统开发者
尽管近期离线多任务强化学习(MTRL)已利用Transformer的强大能力,但多数方法仅限于少量任务,向海量任务扩展仍面临巨大挑战。本文首次分析任务数量对现有MTRL方法的影响,揭示简单增加参数无法缓解任务增多带来的性能下降。为此,提出M3DT框架:通过在决策变换器(DT)中引入专家混合(MoE),使模型参数可扩展;并设计三阶段训练机制,提升训练效率与性能。实验表明,随着专家数量增加,M3DT不仅在固定任务数下持续提升性能,更成功扩展至160个任务,表现优越。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Despite recent advancements in offline multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) have harnessed the powerful capabilities of the Transformer architecture, most approaches focus on a limited number of tasks, with scaling to extremely massive tasks remaining a formidable challenge. In this paper, we first revisit the key impact of task numbers on current MTRL method, and further reveal that naively expanding the parameters proves insufficient to counteract the performance degradation as the number of tasks escalates. Building upon these insights, we propose M3DT, a novel mixture-of-experts (MoE) framework that tackles task scalability by further unlocking the model's parameter scalability. Specifically, we enhance both the architecture and the optimization of the agent, where we strengthen the Decision Transformer (DT) backbone with MoE to reduce task load on parameter subsets, and introduce a three-stage training mechanism to facilitate efficient training with optimal performance. Experimental results show that, by increasing the number of experts, M3DT not only consistently enhances its performance as model expansion on the fixed task numbers, but also exhibits remarkable task scalability, successfully extending to 160 tasks with superior performance.
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