FlashSAC让机器人高维控制的强化学习更快更稳,训练时间从小时级缩至分钟级。
FlashSAC: Fast and Stable Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for High-Dimensional Robot Control

- 通过大模型+高数据吞吐量减少梯度更新次数,提升训练速度
- 在60多个任务中超越PPO和主流算法,高维操作任务表现最佳
- 适合需要快速训练且对稳定性要求高的机器人控制场景
强化学习是无专家示范时机器人控制的核心方法。尽管PPO等在线策略方法稳定,但依赖窄分布数据限制了高维状态与动作空间中的策略评估。离线策略方法虽可利用更广的状态-动作分布,却面临收敛慢、不稳定的难题,因价值函数拟合多样数据需大量梯度更新,导致自举过程中的批评误差累积。我们提出FlashSAC,一种基于Soft Actor-Critic的快速且稳定的离线策略强化学习算法。受监督学习缩放定律启发,FlashSAC大幅减少梯度更新次数,通过使用更大模型和更高数据吞吐量进行补偿。为在扩大规模时保持稳定,FlashSAC显式约束权重、特征与梯度范数,抑制批评误差累积。在10个模拟器上的60多个任务中,FlashSAC持续优于PPO和强离线策略基线,在最终性能和训练效率上均有显著提升,尤其在高维任务如灵巧操作中优势明显。在真实世界人形机器人行走的仿真到现实迁移中,训练时间由数小时缩短至数分钟,展示了离线策略强化学习在仿真到现实迁移中的巨大潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a core approach for robot control when expert demonstrations are unavailable. On-policy methods such as Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) are widely used for their stability, but their reliance on narrowly distributed on-policy data limits accurate policy evaluation in high-dimensional state and action spaces. Off-policy methods can overcome this limitation by learning from a broader state-action distribution, yet suffer from slow convergence and instability, as fitting a value function over diverse data requires many gradient updates, causing critic errors to accumulate through bootstrapping. We present FlashSAC, a fast and stable off-policy RL algorithm built on Soft Actor-Critic. Motivated by scaling laws observed in supervised learning, FlashSAC sharply reduces gradient updates while compensating with larger models and higher data throughput. To maintain stability at increased scale, FlashSAC explicitly bounds weight, feature, and gradient norms, curbing critic error accumulation. Across over 60 tasks in 10 simulators, FlashSAC consistently outperforms PPO and strong off-policy baselines in both final performance and training efficiency, with the largest gains on high-dimensional tasks such as dexterous manipulation. In sim-to-real humanoid locomotion, FlashSAC reduces training time from hours to minutes, demonstrating the promise of off-policy RL for sim-to-real transfer.
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