用在线网络更新目标值,实现更快更稳的强化学习。
Use the Online Network If You Can: Towards Fast and Stable Reinforcement Learning
- 用目标网和在线网的最小值作为新目标,缓解过估计问题。
- 在多种任务中提升学习速度与稳定性,性能优于传统方法。
- 可无缝接入主流算法,对计算资源几乎无额外负担。
深度强化学习中,目标网络常用于估计价值函数,虽能保证稳定,但因目标更新缓慢而延缓学习。直接使用在线网络作为目标虽直观且可能加速学习,却易引发不稳定。本文提出MINTO方法,通过取目标网络与在线网络输出的最小值作为新目标,有效缓解了在线网络带来的过估计偏差。该简单有效的更新规则使价值函数学习既快速又稳定。MINTO可无缝集成至多种基于价值和演员-评论家的算法中,开销极小。我们在涵盖在线与离线强化学习、离散与连续动作空间的多个基准上进行了广泛评估,结果表明其在所有任务中均持续提升性能,展现出广泛的适用性与有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The use of target networks is a popular approach for estimating value functions in deep Reinforcement Learning (RL). While effective, the target network remains a compromise solution that preserves stability at the cost of slowly moving targets, thus delaying learning. Conversely, using the online network as a bootstrapped target is intuitively appealing, albeit well-known to lead to unstable learning. In this work, we aim to obtain the best out of both worlds by introducing a novel update rule that computes the target using the MINimum estimate between the Target and Online network, giving rise to our method, MINTO. Through this simple, yet effective modification, we show that MINTO enables faster and stable value function learning, by mitigating the potential overestimation bias of using the online network for bootstrapping. Notably, MINTO can be seamlessly integrated into a wide range of value-based and actor-critic algorithms with a negligible cost. We evaluate MINTO extensively across diverse benchmarks, spanning online and offline RL, as well as discrete and continuous action spaces. Across all benchmarks, MINTO consistently improves performance, demonstrating its broad applicability and effectiveness.
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