提出ORAC方法,在保证安全前提下主动探索高回报区域。
Optimistic Exploration for Risk-Averse Constrained Reinforcement Learning
- 用上下界联合优化实现安全约束下的乐观探索
- 在Safety-Gymnasium和CityLearn中显著提升奖赏与成本权衡
- 适合需兼顾安全与效率的连续控制任务
风险规避型约束强化学习(RaCRL)旨在学习降低环境固有随机性导致罕见且灾难性约束违规概率的策略。通常,风险规避会导致探索保守,收敛至次优策略,无法充分最大化奖励或达成目标。本文提出一种基于探索的RaCRL方法——乐观风险规避演员-评论家(ORAC),通过最大化状态-动作奖励值函数的局部上置信界,同时最小化风险规避状态-动作代价值函数的局部下置信界,构建探索性策略。每一步中,若代价值超过安全约束,则增加其权重;低于则减少,从而激励策略在不确定区域探索以发现高回报状态,同时满足安全约束。实验表明,该方法有效防止收敛至次优策略,在Safety-Gymnasium和复杂建筑能效管理环境CityLearn中显著改善奖赏-代价权衡。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Risk-averse Constrained Reinforcement Learning (RaCRL) aims to learn policies that minimise the likelihood of rare and catastrophic constraint violations caused by an environment's inherent randomness. In general, risk-aversion leads to conservative exploration of the environment which typically results in converging to sub-optimal policies that fail to adequately maximise reward or, in some cases, fail to achieve the goal. In this paper, we propose an exploration-based approach for RaCRL called Optimistic Risk-averse Actor Critic (ORAC), which constructs an exploratory policy by maximising a local upper confidence bound of the state-action reward value function whilst minimising a local lower confidence bound of the risk-averse state-action cost value function. Specifically, at each step, the weighting assigned to the cost value is increased or decreased if it exceeds or falls below the safety constraint value. This way the policy is encouraged to explore uncertain regions of the environment to discover high reward states whilst still satisfying the safety constraints. Our experimental results demonstrate that the ORAC approach prevents convergence to sub-optimal policies and improves significantly the reward-cost trade-off in various continuous control tasks such as Safety-Gymnasium and a complex building energy management environment CityLearn.
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