arXiv:2608.20909cs.LGcs.RO2026-08

将离线强化学习中的策略训练与价值评估分离,提升策略安全性和性能。

Decoupling Policy Extraction for Offline Reinforcement Learning

论文配图:Decoupling Policy Extraction for Offline Reinforcement Learning
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  • 训练时仅让智能体模仿行为分布,推理时用独立评价器重排候选动作。
  • 在多个基准上超越行为克隆和联合训练方法,即使使用简单Q值网络也有效。
  • 适合追求高安全性、避免出域动作的离线强化学习应用。

离线强化学习通常联合训练策略(actor)与价值函数(critic),由价值函数引导策略向高价值动作优化。然而在离线场景中,数据固定,策略改进无法生成新数据验证或修正价值函数。这种耦合机制导致两个问题:一是策略更新可能趋向高价值但分布外(OOD)的动作,放大价值过估计;二是保守估值或行为克隆正则化难以平衡抑制异常动作与选择数据支持区域内的高价值动作。为此,本文提出将策略改进过程解耦,即训练时仅让策略建模行为分布,在推理阶段通过独立训练的价值函数对多个策略生成的候选动作进行重排序。该范式下,策略提供符合行为分布的动作候选,价值函数则基于价值在候选集中做选择。大量实验表明,该解耦策略提取方法优于行为克隆和联合训练方法,且即使使用基础的Q-learning价值函数仍保持有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Offline RL methods commonly jointly train the actor and critic, where the critic is used to guide the actor toward higher-value actions. This coupled learning process is well motivated in online RL, where an improved actor collects new data that can further update the actor and the critic. However, training data remains fixed in offline RL, making actor-side policy improvement unable to generate new data to validate or correct the critic. Moreover, retaining this coupled paradigm leads to two related challenges. Firstly, actor updates can drift toward high-valued but potentially out-of-distribution (OOD) actions and amplify critic overestimation. Secondly, conservative value estimation or behavior-cloning regularization creates a difficult trade-off between suppressing OOD actions and selecting high-value actions within the data-supported region. Motivated by this observation, we revisit the conventional offline RL paradigm and propose decoupling policy improvement from actor training. Specifically, we train the actor solely to model the behavior distribution and perform policy improvement at inference time by reranking multiple actor-generated proposals with a separately learned critic. We refer to this paradigm as the decoupled policy extraction paradigm. Under such paradigm, the actor provides behavior-supported action candidates, while the critic performs value-based selection within this candidate set. Extensive experiments show that the decoupled policy extraction paradigm outperforms both behavior cloning and jointly learned offline RL methods, while remaining effective even with a naive Q-learning critic.

强化学习离线学习策略解耦价值评估

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