循环切换离线与在线训练,提升强化学习效率与稳定性。
COOPO: Cyclic Offline-Online Policy Optimization Algorithm

- 通过周期性交替离线约束训练与在线微调,减少分布漂移。
- 在D4RL上减少60%以上在线交互,最终回报优于现有方法。
- 适合需要高效利用数据、降低环境交互的强化学习应用。
离线强化学习受限于静态数据集,易产生分布偏移和性能瓶颈;而在线强化学习则需大量环境交互。近期混合方法虽缓解此问题,但存在过渡时的分布漂移和离线知识遗忘。我们提出COOPO(循环离线-在线策略优化),一个反复循环离线约束训练与在线微调的通用框架。每轮先通过KL正则化的优势加权离线更新锚定策略,减小分布偏移;再使用任意策略优化器在线微调,实现稳定探索。关键在于周期性返回离线训练,消除遗忘与漂移,最大化数据复用。该循环机制还降低了在线交互需求。理论上,COOPO在标准覆盖假设下保证单调改进,样本效率优于纯在线强化学习。在D4RL广泛基准测试中,相较先进混合方法,显著减少在线交互量,同时提升最终回报,对不同离线算法和在线优化器均表现鲁棒。这种闭环协同树立了自适应强化学习的新效率与性能标杆。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Offline reinforcement learning struggles with distributional shift and constrained performance due to static dataset limitations, while online RL demands prohibitive environment interactions. The recent advent of hybrid offline-to-online methods bridges these domains but suffers from distribution drift during transitions and catastrophic forgetting of offline knowledge. We introduce COOPO (Cyclic Offline-Online Policy Optimization), a generalized framework that repeatedly cycles between constrained offline training and online fine-tuning. Each cycle first anchors the policy to the dataset via KL-regularized advantage-weighted offline updates to minimize distributional shift and then fine-tunes it online using any policy optimization for stable exploration. Crucially, periodically returning to offline training eliminates forgetting and drift while maximizing dataset reuse. The cyclic behavior also helps reduce the online environment interactions. Theoretically, COOPO achieves better online sample efficiency, surpassing pure online RL, with guaranteed monotonic improvement under standard coverage assumptions. Extensive D4RL benchmarks demonstrate COOPO reduces online interactions versus state-of-the-art hybrids while improving final returns, maintaining robustness across diverse offline algorithms and online optimizers. This looped synergy sets new efficiency and performance standards for adaptive RL.
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