无需动作数据,用状态转移推荐加速强化学习训练。
Action-Free Offline-to-Online RL via Discretised State Policies
- 用离散状态策略替代动作策略,从无动作数据中学习。
- 在多个基准上提升在线学习收敛速度和最终性能。
- 适合动作缺失的现实场景,如隐私保护或传感器受限环境。
现有大多数离线强化学习方法依赖数据集中包含动作标签,但在实际场景中,由于隐私、存储或传感器限制,动作信息可能缺失。本文提出“无动作离线到在线强化学习”设置,即代理仅从$(s,r,s')$三元组数据集中学习,并在在线交互中利用该知识。为此,我们提出学习推荐理想下一状态转移的状态策略,而非动作。主要贡献有二:第一,引入一种简单但新颖的状态离散化变换,并提出基于值函数的离线状态仅决策Q网络(Offline State-Only DecQN, exttt{DecQN}),用于从无动作数据中预训练状态策略; exttt{DecQN}通过该变换可高效扩展至高维问题,同时避免连续状态预测带来的不稳定与过拟合。第二,提出一种新型在线引导学习机制,利用预训练状态策略加速在线智能体的学习。二者共同构成一个可扩展且实用的框架,有效利用无动作数据加速在线强化学习。大量实验表明,该方法显著提升收敛速度与最终性能;分析揭示,离散化与正则化是其有效性关键。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Most existing offline RL methods presume the availability of action labels within the dataset, but in many practical scenarios, actions may be missing due to privacy, storage, or sensor limitations. We formalise the setting of action-free offline-to-online RL, where agents must learn from datasets consisting solely of $(s,r,s')$ tuples and later leverage this knowledge during online interaction. To address this challenge, we propose learning state policies that recommend desirable next-state transitions rather than actions. Our contributions are twofold. First, we introduce a simple yet novel state discretisation transformation and propose Offline State-Only DecQN (\algo), a value-based algorithm designed to pre-train state policies from action-free data. \algo{} integrates the transformation to scale efficiently to high-dimensional problems while avoiding instability and overfitting associated with continuous state prediction. Second, we propose a novel mechanism for guided online learning that leverages these pre-trained state policies to accelerate the learning of online agents. Together, these components establish a scalable and practical framework for leveraging action-free datasets to accelerate online RL. Empirical results across diverse benchmarks demonstrate that our approach improves convergence speed and asymptotic performance, while analyses reveal that discretisation and regularisation are critical to its effectiveness.
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