提出安全支撑Q学习,训练时不访问任何危险状态。
Safe-Support Q-Learning: Learning without Unsafe Exploration

- 用安全集支持的行为策略,确保探索仅限于安全区域。
- 两阶段训练:先约束Q函数逼近行为策略,再提取近似最优策略。
- 适合对安全性要求极高的强化学习应用,如机器人控制。
在现实世界应用中,强化学习训练过程中的不安全探索可能导致灾难性后果,因此确保训练安全至关重要。现有安全强化学习方法多通过约束或惩罚来降低风险,但仍允许在训练中访问不安全状态。本文提出更严格的安全要求:训练过程中完全避免访问不安全状态。为此,我们设计了一种基于Q-learning的安全强化学习框架,利用在安全集上支持的行为策略进行探索。假设生成轨迹始终处于安全集内,该策略可在安全区域内充分探索,无需近似最优。采用两阶段框架,分别训练Q函数与策略。具体地,引入KL正则化的贝尔曼目标,使Q函数保持与行为策略接近。随后从训练好的Q值导出策略,并提出参数化策略提取方法以近似最优策略。该方法可适配不同动作空间和行为策略类型。实验表明,所提方法实现稳定学习、校准良好的价值估计,且在安全性上优于或相当现有基线,性能表现相当或更优。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Ensuring safety during reinforcement learning (RL) training is critical in real-world applications where unsafe exploration can lead to devastating outcomes. While most safe RL methods mitigate risk through constraints or penalization, they still allow exploration of unsafe states during training. In this work, we adopt a stricter safety requirement that eliminates unsafe state visitation during training. To achieve this goal, we propose a Q-learning-based safe RL framework that leverages a behavior policy supported on a safe set. Under the assumption that the induced trajectories remain within the safe set, this policy enables sufficient exploration within the safe region without requiring near-optimality. We adopt a two-stage framework in which the Q-function and policy are trained separately. Specifically, we introduce a KL-regularized Bellman target that constrains the Q-function to remain close to the behavior policy. We then derive the policy induced from the trained Q-values and propose a parametric policy extraction method to approximate the optimal policy. Our approach provides a unified framework that can be adapted to different action spaces and types of behavior policies. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves stable learning and well-calibrated value estimates and yields safer behavior with comparable or better performance than existing baselines.
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