人工智能（AI）的努力是设计能够完成复杂任务的自主代理。也就是说，加强学习（RL）提出了学习最佳行为的理论背景。实际上，RL算法依靠几何折扣来评估这种最优性。不幸的是，这并不涵盖未来回报并没有达到成倍价值的决策过程。根据问题的不同，此限制会引起样本信息（由于饲料后额定值是指数衰减），并且需要其他课程/探索机制（以处理稀疏，欺骗性或对抗性奖励）。在本文中，我们通过通过延迟目标功能将折现问题提出来解决这些问题。我们研究了得出的基本RL问题：1）最佳固定解和2）最佳非平稳控制的近似值。设计的算法解决了表格环境上的​​硬探索问题，并在经典的模拟机器人基准上提高了样品效率。

Model-free deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been demonstrated on a range of challenging decision making and control tasks. However, these methods typically suffer from two major challenges: very high sample complexity and brittle convergence properties, which necessitate meticulous hyperparameter tuning. Both of these challenges severely limit the applicability of such methods to complex, real-world domains. In this paper, we propose soft actor-critic, an offpolicy actor-critic deep RL algorithm based on the maximum entropy reinforcement learning framework. In this framework, the actor aims to maximize expected reward while also maximizing entropy. That is, to succeed at the task while acting as randomly as possible. Prior deep RL methods based on this framework have been formulated as Q-learning methods. By combining off-policy updates with a stable stochastic actor-critic formulation, our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on a range of continuous control benchmark tasks, outperforming prior on-policy and off-policy methods. Furthermore, we demonstrate that, in contrast to other off-policy algorithms, our approach is very stable, achieving very similar performance across different random seeds.

While reinforcement learning algorithms provide automated acquisition of optimal policies, practical application of such methods requires a number of design decisions, such as manually designing reward functions that not only define the task, but also provide sufficient shaping to accomplish it. In this paper, we view reinforcement learning as inferring policies that achieve desired outcomes, rather than as a problem of maximizing rewards. To solve this inference problem, we establish a novel variational inference formulation that allows us to derive a well-shaped reward function which can be learned directly from environment interactions. From the corresponding variational objective, we also derive a new probabilistic Bellman backup operator and use it to develop an off-policy algorithm to solve goal-directed tasks. We empirically demonstrate that this method eliminates the need to hand-craft reward functions for a suite of diverse manipulation and locomotion tasks and leads to effective goal-directed behaviors.

Reinforcement learning (RL) gained considerable attention by creating decision-making agents that maximize rewards received from fully observable environments. However, many real-world problems are partially or noisily observable by nature, where agents do not receive the true and complete state of the environment. Such problems are formulated as partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs). Some studies applied RL to POMDPs by recalling previous decisions and observations or inferring the true state of the environment from received observations. Nevertheless, aggregating observations and decisions over time is impractical for environments with high-dimensional continuous state and action spaces. Moreover, so-called inference-based RL approaches require large number of samples to perform well since agents eschew uncertainty in the inferred state for the decision-making. Active inference is a framework that is naturally formulated in POMDPs and directs agents to select decisions by minimising expected free energy (EFE). This supplies reward-maximising (exploitative) behaviour in RL, with an information-seeking (exploratory) behaviour. Despite this exploratory behaviour of active inference, its usage is limited to discrete state and action spaces due to the computational difficulty of the EFE. We propose a unified principle for joint information-seeking and reward maximization that clarifies a theoretical connection between active inference and RL, unifies active inference and RL, and overcomes their aforementioned limitations. Our findings are supported by strong theoretical analysis. The proposed framework's superior exploration property is also validated by experimental results on partial observable tasks with high-dimensional continuous state and action spaces. Moreover, the results show that our model solves reward-free problems, making task reward design optional.

我们介绍了一种改进政策改进的方法，该方法在基于价值的强化学习（RL）的贪婪方法与基于模型的RL的典型计划方法之间进行了插值。新方法建立在几何视野模型（GHM，也称为伽马模型）的概念上，该模型对给定策略的折现状态验证分布进行了建模。我们表明，我们可以通过仔细的基本策略GHM的仔细组成，而无需任何其他学习，可以评估任何非马尔科夫策略，以固定的概率在一组基本马尔可夫策略之间切换。然后，我们可以将广义政策改进（GPI）应用于此类非马尔科夫政策的收集，以获得新的马尔可夫政策，通常将其表现优于其先驱。我们对这种方法提供了彻底的理论分析，开发了转移和标准RL的应用，并在经验上证明了其对标准GPI的有效性，对充满挑战的深度RL连续控制任务。我们还提供了GHM培训方法的分析，证明了关于先前提出的方法的新型收敛结果，并显示了如何在深度RL设置中稳定训练这些模型。

具有很多玩家的非合作和合作游戏具有许多应用程序，但是当玩家数量增加时，通常仍然很棘手。由Lasry和Lions以及Huang，Caines和Malham \'E引入的，平均野外运动会（MFGS）依靠平均场外近似值，以使玩家数量可以成长为无穷大。解决这些游戏的传统方法通常依赖于以完全了解模型的了解来求解部分或随机微分方程。最近，增强学习（RL）似乎有望解决复杂问题。通过组合MFGS和RL，我们希望在人口规模和环境复杂性方面能够大规模解决游戏。在这项调查中，我们回顾了有关学习MFG中NASH均衡的最新文献。我们首先确定最常见的设置（静态，固定和进化）。然后，我们为经典迭代方法（基于最佳响应计算或策略评估）提供了一个通用框架，以确切的方式解决MFG。在这些算法和与马尔可夫决策过程的联系的基础上，我们解释了如何使用RL以无模型的方式学习MFG解决方案。最后，我们在基准问题上介绍了数值插图，并以某些视角得出结论。

由于策略梯度定理导致的策略设置存在各种理论上 - 声音策略梯度算法，其为梯度提供了简化的形式。然而，由于存在多重目标和缺乏明确的脱助政策政策梯度定理，截止策略设置不太明确。在这项工作中，我们将这些目标统一到一个违规目标，并为此统一目标提供了政策梯度定理。推导涉及强调的权重和利息职能。我们显示多种策略来近似梯度，以识别权重（ACE）称为Actor评论家的算法。我们证明了以前（半梯度）脱离政策演员 - 评论家 - 特别是offpac和DPG - 收敛到错误的解决方案，而Ace找到最佳解决方案。我们还强调为什么这些半梯度方法仍然可以在实践中表现良好，表明ace中的方差策略。我们经验研究了两个经典控制环境的若干ACE变体和基于图像的环境，旨在说明每个梯度近似的权衡。我们发现，通过直接逼近强调权重，ACE在所有测试的所有设置中执行或优于offpac。

在强化学习（RL）中，目标是获得最佳政策，最佳标准在根本上至关重要。两个主要的最优标准是平均奖励和打折的奖励。虽然后者更受欢迎，但在没有固有折扣概念的情况下，在环境中申请是有问题的。这促使我们重新审视a）动态编程中最佳标准的进步，b）人工折现因子的理由和复杂性，c）直接最大化平均奖励标准的好处，这是无折扣的。我们的贡献包括对平均奖励和打折奖励之间的关系以及对RL中的利弊的讨论之间的关系。我们强调的是，平均奖励RL方法具有将无折扣优化标准（Veinott，1969）应用于RL的成分和机制。

无模型的深度增强学习（RL）已成功应用于挑战连续控制域。然而，较差的样品效率可防止这些方法广泛用于现实世界领域。我们通过提出一种新的无模型算法，现实演员 - 评论家（RAC）来解决这个问题，旨在通过学习关于Q函数的各种信任的政策家庭来解决价值低估和高估之间的权衡。我们构建不确定性惩罚Q-Learning（UPQ），该Q-Learning（UPQ）使用多个批评者的合并来控制Q函数的估计偏差，使Q函数平稳地从低于更高的置信范围偏移。随着这些批评者的指导，RAC采用通用价值函数近似器（UVFA），同时使用相同的神经网络学习许多乐观和悲观的政策。乐观的政策会产生有效的探索行为，而悲观政策会降低价值高估的风险，以确保稳定的策略更新和Q函数。该方法可以包含任何违规的演员 - 评论家RL算法。我们的方法实现了10倍的样本效率和25 \％的性能改进与SAC在最具挑战性的人形环境中，获得了11107美元的集中奖励1107美元，价格为10 ^ 6美元。所有源代码都可以在https://github.com/ihuhuhu/rac获得。

由于数据量增加，金融业的快速变化已经彻底改变了数据处理和数据分析的技术，并带来了新的理论和计算挑战。与古典随机控制理论和解决财务决策问题的其他分析方法相比，解决模型假设的财务决策问题，强化学习（RL）的新发展能够充分利用具有更少模型假设的大量财务数据并改善复杂的金融环境中的决策。该调查纸目的旨在审查最近的资金途径的发展和使用RL方法。我们介绍了马尔可夫决策过程，这是许多常用的RL方法的设置。然后引入各种算法，重点介绍不需要任何模型假设的基于价值和基于策略的方法。连接是用神经网络进行的，以扩展框架以包含深的RL算法。我们的调查通过讨论了这些RL算法在金融中各种决策问题中的应用，包括最佳执行，投资组合优化，期权定价和对冲，市场制作，智能订单路由和Robo-Awaring。

资产分配（或投资组合管理）是确定如何最佳将有限预算的资金分配给一系列金融工具/资产（例如股票）的任务。这项研究调查了使用无模型的深RL代理应用于投资组合管理的增强学习（RL）的性能。我们培训了几个RL代理商的现实股票价格，以学习如何执行资产分配。我们比较了这些RL剂与某些基线剂的性能。我们还比较了RL代理，以了解哪些类别的代理表现更好。从我们的分析中，RL代理可以执行投资组合管理的任务，因为它们的表现明显优于基线代理（随机分配和均匀分配）。四个RL代理（A2C，SAC，PPO和TRPO）总体上优于最佳基线MPT。这显示了RL代理商发现更有利可图的交易策略的能力。此外，基于价值和基于策略的RL代理之间没有显着的性能差异。演员批评者的表现比其他类型的药物更好。同样，在政策代理商方面的表现要好，因为它们在政策评估方面更好，样品效率在投资组合管理中并不是一个重大问题。这项研究表明，RL代理可以大大改善资产分配，因为它们的表现优于强基础。基于我们的分析，在政策上，参与者批评的RL药物显示出最大的希望。

Adequately assigning credit to actions for future outcomes based on their contributions is a long-standing open challenge in Reinforcement Learning. The assumptions of the most commonly used credit assignment method are disadvantageous in tasks where the effects of decisions are not immediately evident. Furthermore, this method can only evaluate actions that have been selected by the agent, making it highly inefficient. Still, no alternative methods have been widely adopted in the field. Hindsight Credit Assignment is a promising, but still unexplored candidate, which aims to solve the problems of both long-term and counterfactual credit assignment. In this thesis, we empirically investigate Hindsight Credit Assignment to identify its main benefits, and key points to improve. Then, we apply it to factored state representations, and in particular to state representations based on the causal structure of the environment. In this setting, we propose a variant of Hindsight Credit Assignment that effectively exploits a given causal structure. We show that our modification greatly decreases the workload of Hindsight Credit Assignment, making it more efficient and enabling it to outperform the baseline credit assignment method on various tasks. This opens the way to other methods based on given or learned causal structures.

In order to avoid conventional controlling methods which created obstacles due to the complexity of systems and intense demand on data density, developing modern and more efficient control methods are required. In this way, reinforcement learning off-policy and model-free algorithms help to avoid working with complex models. In terms of speed and accuracy, they become prominent methods because the algorithms use their past experience to learn the optimal policies. In this study, three reinforcement learning algorithms; DDPG, TD3 and SAC have been used to train Fetch robotic manipulator for four different tasks in MuJoCo simulation environment. All of these algorithms are off-policy and able to achieve their desired target by optimizing both policy and value functions. In the current study, the efficiency and the speed of these three algorithms are analyzed in a controlled environment.

在过去的十年中，多智能经纪人强化学习（Marl）已经有了重大进展，但仍存在许多挑战，例如高样本复杂性和慢趋同稳定的政策，在广泛的部署之前需要克服，这是可能的。然而，在实践中，许多现实世界的环境已经部署了用于生成策略的次优或启发式方法。一个有趣的问题是如何最好地使用这些方法作为顾问，以帮助改善多代理领域的加强学习。在本文中，我们提供了一个原则的框架，用于将动作建议纳入多代理设置中的在线次优顾问。我们描述了在非传记通用随机游戏环境中提供多种智能强化代理（海军上将）的问题，并提出了两种新的基于Q学习的算法：海军上将决策（海军DM）和海军上将 - 顾问评估（Admiral-AE） ，这使我们能够通过适当地纳入顾问（Admiral-DM）的建议来改善学习，并评估顾问（Admiral-AE）的有效性。我们从理论上分析了算法，并在一般加上随机游戏中提供了关于他们学习的定点保证。此外，广泛的实验说明了这些算法：可以在各种环境中使用，具有对其他相关基线的有利相比的性能，可以扩展到大状态行动空间，并且对来自顾问的不良建议具有稳健性。

Atari games have been a long-standing benchmark in the reinforcement learning (RL) community for the past decade. This benchmark was proposed to test general competency of RL algorithms. Previous work has achieved good average performance by doing outstandingly well on many games of the set, but very poorly in several of the most challenging games. We propose Agent57, the first deep RL agent that outperforms the standard human benchmark on all 57 Atari games. To achieve this result, we train a neural network which parameterizes a family of policies ranging from very exploratory to purely exploitative. We propose an adaptive mechanism to choose which policy to prioritize throughout the training process. Additionally, we utilize a novel parameterization of the architecture that allows for more consistent and stable learning.

Effectively leveraging large, previously collected datasets in reinforcement learning (RL) is a key challenge for large-scale real-world applications. Offline RL algorithms promise to learn effective policies from previously-collected, static datasets without further interaction. However, in practice, offline RL presents a major challenge, and standard off-policy RL methods can fail due to overestimation of values induced by the distributional shift between the dataset and the learned policy, especially when training on complex and multi-modal data distributions. In this paper, we propose conservative Q-learning (CQL), which aims to address these limitations by learning a conservative Q-function such that the expected value of a policy under this Q-function lower-bounds its true value. We theoretically show that CQL produces a lower bound on the value of the current policy and that it can be incorporated into a policy learning procedure with theoretical improvement guarantees. In practice, CQL augments the standard Bellman error objective with a simple Q-value regularizer which is straightforward to implement on top of existing deep Q-learning and actor-critic implementations. On both discrete and continuous control domains, we show that CQL substantially outperforms existing offline RL methods, often learning policies that attain 2-5 times higher final return, especially when learning from complex and multi-modal data distributions.Preprint. Under review.

政策梯度定理（Sutton等，2000）规定了目标政策下的累积折扣国家分配以近似梯度。实际上，基于该定理的大多数算法都打破了这一假设，引入了分布转移，该分配转移可能导致逆转溶液的收敛性。在本文中，我们提出了一种新的方法，可以从开始状态重建政策梯度，而无需采取特定的采样策略。可以根据梯度评论家来简化此形式的策略梯度计算，由于梯度的新钟声方程式，可以递归估算。通过使用来自差异数据流的梯度评论家的时间差异更新，我们开发了第一个以无模型方式避开分布变化问题的估计器。我们证明，在某些可实现的条件下，无论采样策略如何，我们的估计器都是公正的。我们从经验上表明，我们的技术在存在非政策样品的情况下实现了卓越的偏见变化权衡和性能。

我们提供了一种通过从域知识或离线数据构建的启发式提供加强学习（RL）算法的框架。 Tabula RAS RL算法需要与顺序决策任务的地平线相比的环境相互作用或计算。使用我们的框架，我们展示了启发式引导的RL如何引导更短的地平次数，可从而解决原始任务。我们的框架可以被视为基于地平线的正则化，用于在有限互动预算下控制RL中的偏差和方差。在理论方面，我们表征了良好启发式的特性及其对RL加速的影响。特别是，我们介绍了一种新颖的启发式的概念，一种启发式，允许RL代理外推超出其先前知识。在实证方面，我们实例化了我们的框架，以加速模拟机器人控制任务和程序生成的游戏中的若干最先进的算法。我们的框架在热启动RL与专家演示或探索数据集中的丰富文学补充，并引入了一种用于将先验知识注入RL的原则方法。

本文研究了一种使用背景计划的新方法，用于基于模型的增强学习：混合（近似）动态编程更新和无模型更新，类似于DYNA体系结构。通过学习模型的背景计划通常比无模型替代方案（例如Double DQN）差，尽管前者使用了更多的内存和计算。基本问题是，学到的模型可能是不准确的，并且经常会产生无效的状态，尤其是在迭代许多步骤时。在本文中，我们通过将背景规划限制为一组（抽象）子目标并仅学习本地，子观念模型来避免这种限制。这种目标空间计划（GSP）方法更有效地是在计算上，自然地纳入了时间抽象，以进行更快的长胜压计划，并避免完全学习过渡动态。我们表明，在各种情况下，我们的GSP算法比双DQN基线要快得多。

在许多顺序决策问题（例如，机器人控制，游戏播放，顺序预测），人类或专家数据可用包含有关任务的有用信息。然而，来自少量专家数据的模仿学习（IL）可能在具有复杂动态的高维环境中具有挑战性。行为克隆是一种简单的方法，由于其简单的实现和稳定的收敛而被广泛使用，但不利用涉及环境动态的任何信息。由于对奖励和政策近似器或偏差，高方差梯度估计器，难以在实践中难以在实践中努力训练的许多现有方法。我们介绍了一种用于动态感知IL的方法，它通过学习单个Q函数来避免对抗训练，隐含地代表奖励和策略。在标准基准测试中，隐式学习的奖励显示与地面真实奖励的高正面相关性，说明我们的方法也可以用于逆钢筋学习（IRL）。我们的方法，逆软Q学习（IQ-Learn）获得了最先进的结果，在离线和在线模仿学习设置中，显着优于现有的现有方法，这些方法都在所需的环境交互和高维空间中的可扩展性中，通常超过3倍。