在在线交互有限时,自适应选择并优化策略,提升离线到在线强化学习效果。
Adaptive Policy Selection and Fine-Tuning under Interaction Budgets for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning
- 基于置信度上界动态选择待优化策略,高效利用有限在线交互
- 相比基线方法,在多个基准测试中显著提升最终性能
- 适合在线资源受限、环境变化快的真实场景应用
在离线到在线强化学习(O2O-RL)中,策略先通过历史数据安全训练,再通过有限在线交互进行微调。传统流程通常使用离线评估(OPE)或在线评估(OE)选择表现最优的候选策略并部署。但OPE可能不可靠,而OE需大量在线交互,难以满足预算约束。更重要的是,难以预先判断预训练策略是否能在部署后受益于微调,尤其在非平稳环境中。因此,固定部署单一策略不切实际。若对所有候选策略逐一微调,则会超出交互预算。本文提出一种新的自适应策略选择与微调方法,在在线交互预算下实现高效优化。首先用不同算法和超参数训练一组候选策略,并通过OPE获取初始评估;随后采用置信度上界机制,动态选择并微调最有潜力的策略,以最大化交互效率。实验表明,该方法在多个基准测试中优于现有O2O-RL基线。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In offline-to-online reinforcement learning (O2O-RL), policies are first safely trained offline using previously collected datasets and then further fine-tuned for tasks via limited online interactions. In a typical O2O-RL pipeline, candidate policies trained with offline RL are evaluated via either off-policy evaluation (OPE) or online evaluation (OE). The policy with the highest estimated value is then deployed and continually fine-tuned. However, this setup has two main issues. First, OPE can be unreliable, making it risky to deploy a policy based solely on those estimates, whereas OE may identify a viable policy with substantial online interaction, which could have been used for fine-tuning. Second--and more importantly--it is also often not possible to determine a priori whether a pretrained policy will improve with post-deployment fine-tuning, especially in non-stationary environments. As a result, procedures committing to a single deployed policy are impractical in many real-world settings. Moreover, a naive remedy that exhaustively fine-tunes all candidates would violate interaction budget constraints and is likewise infeasible. In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive approach for policy selection and fine-tuning under online interaction budgets in O2O-RL. Following the standard pipeline, we first train a set of candidate policies with different offline RL algorithms and hyperparameters; we then perform OPE to obtain initial performance estimates. We next adaptively select and fine-tune the policies based on their predicted performance via an upper-confidence-bound approach thereby making efficient use of online interactions. We demonstrate that our approach improves upon O2O-RL baselines with various benchmarks.
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