自适应动作块大小的强化学习方法,提升长时序稀疏奖励任务表现。
ACSAC: Adaptive Chunk Size Actor-Critic with Causal Transformer Q-Network

- 用因果Transformer动态选择动作块大小,实现状态相关自适应。
- 在OGBench上达到当前最优性能,适用于离线与在线强化学习场景。
- 无需人工调参,自动平衡反应速度与动作连贯性。
长时序、稀疏奖励任务对强化学习构成根本挑战,因单步TD学习会在连续Bellman更新中累积偏差。通过动作块化操作的演员-评论家方法可缩短有效时序长度,加速价值回溯并支持时间一致的探索。但现有方法依赖固定块大小,无法在响应性与时间一致性间自适应权衡:大块降低对新观测的响应速度,小块导致动作不连贯,需针对任务手动调参。为此,我们提出自适应块大小演员-评论家(ACSAC)。ACSAC利用因果Transformer评论家评估不同块大小的动作预期回报,在每个块边界自适应选择使预期回报最大化的块大小,实现无需任务调参的状态依赖灵活块大小。我们证明了ACSAC的Bellman算子是收缩映射,其唯一不动点即为自适应策略的动作值函数。在OGBench上的实验表明,ACSAC在长时序稀疏奖励操控任务中,无论离线还是离线到在线强化学习设置下,均达到当前最优性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Long-horizon, sparse-reward tasks pose a fundamental challenge for reinforcement learning, since single-step TD learning suffers from bootstrapping error accumulation across successive Bellman updates. Actor-critic methods with action chunking address this by operating over temporally extended actions, which reduce the effective horizon, enable fast value backups, and support temporally consistent exploration. However, existing methods rely on a fixed chunk size and therefore cannot adaptively balance reactivity against temporal consistency. A large fixed chunk size reduces responsiveness to new observations, while a small one produces incoherent motions, forcing task-specific tuning of the chunk size. To address this limitation, we propose Adaptive Chunk Size Actor-Critic (ACSAC). ACSAC leverages a causal Transformer critic to evaluate expected returns for action chunks of different sizes. At each chunk boundary, it adaptively selects the chunk size that maximizes the expected return, supporting flexible, state-dependent chunk sizes without task-specific tuning. We prove that the ACSAC Bellman operator is a contraction whose unique fixed point is the action-value function of the adaptive policy. Experiments on OGBench demonstrate that ACSAC achieves state-of-the-art performance on long-horizon, sparse-reward manipulation tasks across both offline RL and offline-to-online RL settings.
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