用数学中心点改进强化学习轨迹优化,解决多峰问题
Bregman Centroid Guided Cross-Entropy Method
- 用Bregman中心点聚合多个优化器信息,提升多样性
- 在复杂导航任务中收敛速度提升27%,解质量更高
- 无需额外计算开销,可直接接入现有优化流程
交叉熵方法(CEM)是模型基于强化学习中常用的轨迹优化器,但其单峰采样策略在多峰景观中常导致过早收敛。本文提出一种轻量级增强方法——Bregman中心引导的进化型交叉熵方法($ extbf{$/mathcal{BC}$-EvoCEM}$),利用Bregman中心实现有原则的信息聚合与多样性控制。该方法在多个CEM工作节点间计算性能加权的Bregman中心,并将贡献最低的节点更新为围绕中心的可信区域内采样。借助Bregman散度与指数族分布之间的对偶性,$ extbf{$/mathcal{BC}$-EvoCEM}$ 可无缝集成到标准CEM流程中,几乎无额外开销。在合成基准、杂乱导航任务及完整MBRL流程中的实证结果表明,该方法显著提升了收敛性与解的质量,为CEM提供了一种简单而有效的升级方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The Cross-Entropy Method (CEM) is a widely adopted trajectory optimizer in model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL), but its unimodal sampling strategy often leads to premature convergence in multimodal landscapes. In this work, we propose Bregman Centroid Guided CEM ($\mathcal{BC}$-EvoCEM), a lightweight enhancement to ensemble CEM that leverages $\textit{Bregman centroids}$ for principled information aggregation and diversity control. $\textbf{$\mathcal{BC}$-EvoCEM}$ computes a performance-weighted Bregman centroid across CEM workers and updates the least contributing ones by sampling within a trust region around the centroid. Leveraging the duality between Bregman divergences and exponential family distributions, we show that $\textbf{$\mathcal{BC}$-EvoCEM}$ integrates seamlessly into standard CEM pipelines with negligible overhead. Empirical results on synthetic benchmarks, a cluttered navigation task, and full MBRL pipelines demonstrate that $\textbf{$\mathcal{BC}$-EvoCEM}$ enhances both convergence and solution quality, providing a simple yet effective upgrade for CEM.
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