多智能体协同学习,提升强化学习稳定性与性能
Multi-Actor Multi-Critic Deep Deterministic Reinforcement Learning with a Novel Q-Ensemble Method
- 多智能体多评论家架构,通过非支配排序选择探索能力
- 基于分位数的集成策略,降低评估偏差并提升准确性
- 适合复杂控制任务,尤其在机器人和连续动作空间中表现优异
近年来,强化学习因快速发展和广泛应用而备受关注,尤其在控制系统与机器人领域。面对具有巨大离散或连续状态/动作空间的实际问题,深度强化学习通过深度学习技术提供解决方案,其中演员-评论家架构尤为突出。以往研究多采用多个评论家以缓解评估中的过估计与低估问题,但极少考虑多演员与多评论家协同的架构。本文提出一种新型多演员多评论家(MAMC)深度确定性强化学习方法,包含三大特征:基于非支配排序选择兼具技能与创造力的演员以增强探索;采用分位数集成策略评估演员与评论家;利用最具技能的演员进行策略优化。理论分析证明了MAMC的学习稳定性和有界估计偏差。在著名的MuJoCo基准上实验表明,该框架优于当前最先进的深度确定性强化学习方法。实验分析验证了各组件有效性,实证分析进一步揭示其在复杂任务中的优势。源码见https://github.com/AndyWu101/MAMC。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement learning has gathered much attention in recent years due to its rapid development and rich applications, especially on control systems and robotics. When tackling real-world applications with reinforcement learning method, the corresponded Markov decision process may have huge discrete or even continuous state/action space. Deep reinforcement learning has been studied for handling these issues through deep learning for years, and one promising branch is the actor-critic architecture. Many past studies leveraged multiple critics to enhance the accuracy of evaluation of a policy for addressing the overestimation and underestimation issues. However, few studies have considered the architecture with multiple actors together with multiple critics. This study proposes a novel multi-actor multi-critic (MAMC) deep deterministic reinforcement learning method. The proposed method has three main features, including selection of actors based on non-dominated sorting for exploration with respect to skill and creativity factors, evaluation for actors and critics using a quantile-based ensemble strategy, and exploiting actors with best skill factor. Theoretical analysis proves the learning stability and bounded estimation bias for the MAMC. The present study examines the performance on a well-known reinforcement learning benchmark MuJoCo. Experimental results show that the proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art deep deterministic based reinforcement learning methods. Experimental analysis also indicates the proposed components are effective. Empirical analysis further investigates the validity of the proposed method, and shows its benefit on complicated problems. The source code can be found at https://github.com/AndyWu101/MAMC.
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