提出首个面向连续动作的鲁棒强化学习算法，提升环境不确定性下的性能。
DR-SAC: Distributionally Robust Soft Actor-Critic for Reinforcement Learning under Uncertainty
- 基于分布鲁棒优化，在动作评价中考虑最差可能的转移模型。
- 在5个连续任务中，平均奖励比SAC高出9.8倍，且计算更高效。
- 适合需要高可靠性的机器人控制等实际应用。
深度强化学习虽成果显著，但在真实场景中常因对环境不确定性的敏感而受限。分布鲁棒强化学习（DR-RL）被提出以应对该问题，但现有方法多局限于表格型状态空间中的值函数类方法。本文提出首个基于演员-评论家框架的分布鲁棒强化学习算法——DR-SAC，适用于离线学习的连续动作空间。DR-SAC在KL散度约束的不确定性集内，最大化熵正则化的回报，针对最差可能的转移模型进行优化。我们推导了分布鲁棒软策略迭代的理论形式，并提供收敛性保证；同时引入生成建模方法估计未知的名义转移模型。在五个连续强化学习任务上的实验表明，该算法在常见扰动下平均奖励较SAC基准最高提升9.8倍。此外，相比已有DR-RL方法，DR-SAC显著提升计算效率与大规模问题适用性。代码已公开于github.com/Lemutisme/DR-SAC。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Deep reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success, yet its deployment in real-world scenarios is often limited by vulnerability to environmental uncertainties. Distributionally robust RL (DR-RL) algorithms have been proposed to resolve this challenge, but existing approaches are largely restricted to value-based methods in tabular settings. In this work, we introduce Distributionally Robust Soft Actor-Critic (DR-SAC), the first actor-critic based DR-RL algorithm for offline learning in continuous action spaces. DR-SAC maximizes the entropy-regularized rewards against the worst possible transition models within an KL-divergence constrained uncertainty set. We derive the distributionally robust version of the soft policy iteration with a convergence guarantee and incorporate a generative modeling approach to estimate the unknown nominal transition models. Experiment results on five continuous RL tasks demonstrate our algorithm achieves up to 9.8 times higher average reward than the SAC baseline under common perturbations. Additionally, DR-SAC significantly improves computing efficiency and applicability to large-scale problems compared with existing DR-RL algorithms. Code is publicly available at github.com/Lemutisme/DR-SAC.
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