分离智能体与评价器的经验回放,提升连续控制强化学习性能
Enhancing Deep Deterministic Policy Gradients on Continuous Control Tasks with Decoupled Prioritized Experience Replay
- 为智能体和评价器分别设计独立的经验回放缓冲区
- 在MuJoCo多个任务上超越传统经验回放方法
- 适合追求高效训练的强化学习研究者使用
基于深度确定性策略梯度的强化学习算法采用演员-评论家架构,通常对两个网络使用相同的回放过渡批次。然而,演员和评论家的学习目标与更新动态不同,这引发了统一使用过渡批次是否最优的问题。本文提出解耦优先经验回放(DPER),允许独立采样用于训练演员和评论家的过渡批次。DPER可集成至任意适用于连续控制领域的离线策略强化学习算法中。我们将DPER与当前最先进的双延迟DDPG(Twin Delayed DDPG)结合,在OpenAI Gym套件中的标准连续控制基准任务上进行评估。结果表明,DPER在多个MuJoCo任务上优于传统的经验回放和优先经验回放策略。研究发现,为演员和评论家解耦经验回放能改善训练动态并提升最终策略质量。DPER提供了一种通用机制,可显著增强一类离线策略演员-评论家强化学习算法的性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Background: Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient-based reinforcement learning algorithms utilize Actor-Critic architectures, where both networks are typically trained using identical batches of replayed transitions. However, the learning objectives and update dynamics of the Actor and Critic differ, raising concerns about whether uniform transition usage is optimal. Objectives: We aim to improve the performance of deep deterministic policy gradient algorithms by decoupling the transition batches used to train the Actor and the Critic. Our goal is to design an experience replay mechanism that provides appropriate learning signals to each component by using separate, tailored batches. Methods: We introduce Decoupled Prioritized Experience Replay (DPER), a novel approach that allows independent sampling of transition batches for the Actor and the Critic. DPER can be integrated into any off-policy deep reinforcement learning algorithm that operates in continuous control domains. We combine DPER with the state-of-the-art Twin Delayed DDPG algorithm and evaluate its performance across standard continuous control benchmarks. Results: DPER outperforms conventional experience replay strategies such as vanilla experience replay and prioritized experience replay in multiple MuJoCo tasks from the OpenAI Gym suite. Conclusions: Our findings show that decoupling experience replay for Actor and Critic networks can enhance training dynamics and final policy quality. DPER offers a generalizable mechanism that enhances performance for a wide class of actor-critic off-policy reinforcement learning algorithms.
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