用变分自编码器提升强化学习安全边界,实现更可靠的危险预警。
Scenario Generation for Risk-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Probably Approximately Safe Guarantees

- 用VAE建模状态空间分布,通过潜在特征构建安全边界。
- 双优化框架同时生成上下界,确保安全区域的置信度。
- 在未充分探索区域采样,自动收紧安全概率边界。
保障强化学习代理在现实世界部署中的安全性至关重要,尤其因为深度强化学习策略可能对状态转移扰动敏感,导致未知或不安全行为。现有方法通过采样轨迹构建概率屏障证书来划分已知安全与未知行为区域,但当策略受转移不确定性影响时,难以获得紧致的违反约束概率上下界。为此,本文利用变分自编码器(VAE)近似所遇状态空间分布,基于状态的潜在特征构建上下界屏障证书,以优化高置信度的安全行为区域。我们将此建模为双重优化问题,下界证书比上界更保守地估计安全区域。训练中采样两界之间的集合(非鲁棒区域)的状态,从而不断收紧上下界,获得更精确的概率安全保证。实验验证了所提边界的紧致性与可靠性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Guaranteeing safety is critical to the deployment of reinforcement learning (RL) agents in the real-world, especially as policies learned using deep RL may demonstrate susceptibility to transition perturbations that result in unknown or unsafe behaviour. A method of policy verification is to construct probabilistic barrier-certificates by sampling policy trajectories with respect to safety constraints, thereby demarcating known safe behaviour from unknown behaviour. Obtaining tight upper and lower bounds on the probability of violation of these constraints may be difficult if the policy is susceptible to transition uncertainty or perturbation that places the agent in insufficiently explored states. To address this, we approximate the distribution of the encountered state-space using a variational autoencoder (VAE) and construct upper and lower-bound barrier-certificates using latent characteristics of states to optimize for regions of known, safe behaviour with high confidence. We frame this in our work as a dual optimization problem where the lower-bound barrier-certificate presents a more conservative estimate of the safe region than the upper-bound barrier-certificate. Sampling states that lie within the set difference of the two during training, i.e. the non-robust region, allows us to tighten the upper and lower bounds to provide sharper probabilistic guarantees on safety. Within our study, we describe the guarantees placed and demonstrate the tightness of our bounds experimentally.
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