让离线训练的智能体平滑适应线上环境,避免错误累积。
Behavior-Adaptive Q-Learning: A Unifying Framework for Offline-to-Online RL
- 用离线数据构建隐式行为模型,引导在线微调时保持策略一致性
- 高不确定性时约束在线策略靠近离线行为,随经验积累逐步放松
- 适合需安全部署、从离线到在线过渡的强化学习应用
离线强化学习可在无在线交互情况下训练策略,但部署于动态环境时常因分布偏移和未见状态-动作对的价值估计不可靠而表现不佳。本文提出行为自适应Q学习(BAQ),一种实现离线到在线强化学习平稳可靠过渡的统一框架。核心思想是利用离线数据中隐含的行为模型,在在线微调阶段提供行为一致性信号。BAQ采用双目标损失:(i) 在不确定性较高时,将在线策略向离线行为对齐;(ii) 随着更可靠的在线经验积累,逐步放松该约束。这种自适应机制有效减少分布外估计导致的误差传播,稳定早期在线更新,并加速对新场景的适应。在标准基准测试中,BAQ始终优于现有离线到在线强化学习方法,实现更快恢复、更强鲁棒性与更高整体性能。结果表明,隐式行为自适应是一种原则性强且实用的可靠策略部署方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Offline reinforcement learning (RL) enables training from fixed data without online interaction, but policies learned offline often struggle when deployed in dynamic environments due to distributional shift and unreliable value estimates on unseen state-action pairs. We introduce Behavior-Adaptive Q-Learning (BAQ), a framework designed to enable a smooth and reliable transition from offline to online RL. The key idea is to leverage an implicit behavioral model derived from offline data to provide a behavior-consistency signal during online fine-tuning. BAQ incorporates a dual-objective loss that (i) aligns the online policy toward the offline behavior when uncertainty is high, and (ii) gradually relaxes this constraint as more confident online experience is accumulated. This adaptive mechanism reduces error propagation from out-of-distribution estimates, stabilizes early online updates, and accelerates adaptation to new scenarios. Across standard benchmarks, BAQ consistently outperforms prior offline-to-online RL approaches, achieving faster recovery, improved robustness, and higher overall performance. Our results demonstrate that implicit behavior adaptation is a principled and practical solution for reliable real-world policy deployment.
Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。