利用许多离线机器人数据来源需要努力处理此类数据的异质性。在本文中,我们关注异质性的一个特定方面:从不同控制频率收集的离线数据学习。在整个实验室中,控制器的离散化,传感器的采样率以及对目标任务的需求可能会有所不同,从而导致聚合数据集中的频率混合在一起。我们研究离线增强学习(RL)算法如何在训练过程中使用频率混合的数据。我们观察到,$ Q $价值以不同的离散率以不同的速度传播,从而导致了离线RL的许多学习挑战。我们提出了一个简单而有效的解决方案,该解决方案可以在$ Q $值更新的速率上执行一致性,以稳定学习。通过缩放$ n $ n $ n $步骤的$ n $的价值,并具有离散化的大小,我们有效地平衡了$ q $ - 价值传播,从而导致更稳定的收敛性。在三个模拟的机器人控制问题上,我们从经验上发现,这种简单的方法的平均混合量超过50%。
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元强化学习(RL)方法可以使用比标准RL少的数据级的元培训策略,但元培训本身既昂贵又耗时。如果我们可以在离线数据上进行元训练,那么我们可以重复使用相同的静态数据集,该数据集将一次标记为不同任务的奖励,以在元测试时间适应各种新任务的元训练策略。尽管此功能将使Meta-RL成为现实使用的实用工具,但离线META-RL提出了除在线META-RL或标准离线RL设置之外的其他挑战。 Meta-RL学习了一种探索策略,该策略收集了用于适应的数据,并元培训策略迅速适应了新任务的数据。由于该策略是在固定的离线数据集上进行了元训练的,因此当适应学识渊博的勘探策略收集的数据时,它可能表现得不可预测,这与离线数据有系统地不同,从而导致分布变化。我们提出了一种混合脱机元元素算法,该算法使用带有奖励的脱机数据来进行自适应策略,然后收集其他无监督的在线数据,而无需任何奖励标签来桥接这一分配变化。通过不需要在线收集的奖励标签,此数据可以便宜得多。我们将我们的方法比较了在模拟机器人的运动和操纵任务上进行离线元rl的先前工作,并发现使用其他无监督的在线数据收集可以显着提高元训练政策的自适应能力,从而匹配完全在线的表现。在一系列具有挑战性的域上,需要对新任务进行概括。
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Recent advances in batch (offline) reinforcement learning have shown promising results in learning from available offline data and proved offline reinforcement learning to be an essential toolkit in learning control policies in a model-free setting. An offline reinforcement learning algorithm applied to a dataset collected by a suboptimal non-learning-based algorithm can result in a policy that outperforms the behavior agent used to collect the data. Such a scenario is frequent in robotics, where existing automation is collecting operational data. Although offline learning techniques can learn from data generated by a sub-optimal behavior agent, there is still an opportunity to improve the sample complexity of existing offline reinforcement learning algorithms by strategically introducing human demonstration data into the training process. To this end, we propose a novel approach that uses uncertainty estimation to trigger the injection of human demonstration data and guide policy training towards optimal behavior while reducing overall sample complexity. Our experiments show that this approach is more sample efficient when compared to a naive way of combining expert data with data collected from a sub-optimal agent. We augmented an existing offline reinforcement learning algorithm Conservative Q-Learning with our approach and performed experiments on data collected from MuJoCo and OffWorld Gym learning environments.
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强化学习(RL)已在域中展示有效,在域名可以通过与其操作环境进行积极互动来学习政策。但是,如果我们将RL方案更改为脱机设置,代理商只能通过静态数据集更新其策略,其中脱机强化学习中的一个主要问题出现,即分配转移。我们提出了一种悲观的离线强化学习(PESSORL)算法,以主动引导代理通过操纵价值函数来恢复熟悉的区域。我们专注于由分销外(OOD)状态引起的问题,并且故意惩罚训练数据集中不存在的状态的高值,以便学习的悲观值函数下限界限状态空间内的任何位置。我们在各种基准任务中评估Pessorl算法,在那里我们表明我们的方法通过明确处理OOD状态,与这些方法仅考虑ood行动时,我们的方法通过明确处理OOD状态。
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在没有高保真模拟环境的情况下,学习有效的加强学习(RL)政策可以解决现实世界中的复杂任务。在大多数情况下,我们只有具有简化动力学的不完善的模拟器,这不可避免地导致RL策略学习中的SIM到巨大差距。最近出现的离线RL领域为直接从预先收集的历史数据中学习政策提供了另一种可能性。但是,为了达到合理的性能,现有的离线RL算法需要不切实际的离线数据,并具有足够的州行动空间覆盖范围进行培训。这提出了一个新问题:是否有可能通过在线RL中的不完美模拟器中的离线RL中的有限数据中的学习结合到无限制的探索,以解决两种方法的缺点?在这项研究中,我们提出了动态感知的混合离线和对线增强学习(H2O)框架,以为这个问题提供肯定的答案。 H2O引入了动态感知的政策评估方案,该方案可以自适应地惩罚Q函数在模拟的状态行动对上具有较大的动态差距,同时也允许从固定的现实世界数据集中学习。通过广泛的模拟和现实世界任务以及理论分析,我们证明了H2O与其他跨域在线和离线RL算法相对于其他跨域的表现。 H2O提供了全新的脱机脱机RL范式,该范式可能会阐明未来的RL算法设计,以解决实用的现实世界任务。
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While reinforcement learning (RL) has become a more popular approach for robotics, designing sufficiently informative reward functions for complex tasks has proven to be extremely difficult due their inability to capture human intent and policy exploitation. Preference based RL algorithms seek to overcome these challenges by directly learning reward functions from human feedback. Unfortunately, prior work either requires an unreasonable number of queries implausible for any human to answer or overly restricts the class of reward functions to guarantee the elicitation of the most informative queries, resulting in models that are insufficiently expressive for realistic robotics tasks. Contrary to most works that focus on query selection to \emph{minimize} the amount of data required for learning reward functions, we take an opposite approach: \emph{expanding} the pool of available data by viewing human-in-the-loop RL through the more flexible lens of multi-task learning. Motivated by the success of meta-learning, we pre-train preference models on prior task data and quickly adapt them for new tasks using only a handful of queries. Empirically, we reduce the amount of online feedback needed to train manipulation policies in Meta-World by 20$\times$, and demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on a real Franka Panda Robot. Moreover, this reduction in query-complexity allows us to train robot policies from actual human users. Videos of our results and code can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/few-shot-preference-rl/home.
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离线强化学习在利用大型预采用的数据集进行政策学习方面表现出了巨大的希望,使代理商可以放弃经常廉价的在线数据收集。但是,迄今为止,离线强化学习的探索相对较小,并且缺乏对剩余挑战所在的何处的了解。在本文中,我们试图建立简单的基线以在视觉域中连续控制。我们表明,对两个基于最先进的在线增强学习算法,Dreamerv2和DRQ-V2进行了简单的修改,足以超越事先工作并建立竞争性的基准。我们在现有的离线数据集中对这些算法进行了严格的评估,以及从视觉观察结果中进行离线强化学习的新测试台,更好地代表现实世界中离线增强学习问题中存在的数据分布,并开放我们的代码和数据以促进此方面的进度重要领域。最后,我们介绍并分析了来自视觉观察的离线RL所独有的几个关键Desiderata,包括视觉分散注意力和动态视觉上可识别的变化。
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离线增强学习(RL)可以从静态数据集中学习控制策略,但是像标准RL方法一样,它需要每个过渡的奖励注释。在许多情况下,将大型数据集标记为奖励可能会很高,尤其是如果人类标签必须提供这些奖励,同时收集多样的未标记数据可能相对便宜。我们如何在离线RL中最好地利用这种未标记的数据?一种自然解决方案是从标记的数据中学习奖励函数,并使用它标记未标记的数据。在本文中,我们发现,也许令人惊讶的是,一种简单得多的方法,它简单地将零奖励应用于未标记的数据可以导致理论和实践中的有效数据共享,而无需学习任何奖励模型。虽然这种方法起初可能看起来很奇怪(并且不正确),但我们提供了广泛的理论和经验分析,说明了它如何摆脱奖励偏见,样本复杂性和分配变化,通常会导致良好的结果。我们表征了这种简单策略有效的条件,并进一步表明,使用简单的重新加权方法扩展它可以进一步缓解通过使用不正确的奖励标签引入的偏见。我们的经验评估证实了模拟机器人运动,导航和操纵设置中的这些发现。
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离线RL算法必须说明其提供的数据集可能使环境的许多方面未知。应对这一挑战的最常见方法是采用悲观或保守的方法,避免行为与培训数据集中的行为过于不同。但是,仅依靠保守主义存在缺点:绩效对保守主义的确切程度很敏感,保守的目标可以恢复高度最佳的政策。在这项工作中,我们建议在不确定性的情况下,脱机RL方法应该是适应性的。我们表明,在贝叶斯的意义上,在离线RL中最佳作用涉及解决隐式POMDP。结果,离线RL的最佳策略必须是自适应的,这不仅取决于当前状态,而且还取决于迄今为止在评估期间看到的所有过渡。我们提出了一种无模型的算法,用于近似于此最佳自适应策略,并证明在离线RL基准测试中学习此类适应性政策。
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大多数前往离线强化学习(RL)的方法都采取了一种迭代演员 - 批评批评,涉及违规评估。在本文中,我们展示了使用行为政策的政策Q估计来令人惊讶地执行一步的Q估计,从而简单地执行一个受限制/正规化的政策改进的步骤。该一步算法在大部分D4RL基准测试中击败了先前报告的迭代算法的结果。一步基线实现了这种强劲的性能,同时对超公数更简单,更强大而不是先前提出的迭代算法。我们认为迭代方法的表现相对较差是在违反政策评估中固有的高方差,并通过对这些估计的重复优化的政策进行放大。此外,我们假设一步算法的强大性能是由于环境和行为政策中有利结构的组合。
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增强学习(RL)算法假设用户通过手动编写奖励函数来指定任务。但是,这个过程可能是费力的,需要相当大的技术专长。我们可以设计RL算法,而是通过提供成功结果的示例来支持用户来指定任务吗?在本文中,我们推导了一种控制算法,可以最大化这些成功结果示例的未来概率。在前阶段的工作已经接近了类似的问题,首先学习奖励功能,然后使用另一个RL算法优化此奖励功能。相比之下,我们的方法直接从过渡和成功的结果中学习价值函数,而无需学习此中间奖励功能。因此,我们的方法需要较少的封闭式曲折和调试的代码行。我们表明我们的方法满足了一种新的数据驱动Bellman方程,其中示例取代了典型的奖励函数术语。实验表明,我们的方法优于学习明确奖励功能的先前方法。
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Offline reinforcement learning (RL) promises the ability to learn effective policies solely using existing, static datasets, without any costly online interaction. To do so, offline RL methods must handle distributional shift between the dataset and the learned policy. The most common approach is to learn conservative, or lower-bound, value functions, which underestimate the return of out-of-distribution (OOD) actions. However, such methods exhibit one notable drawback: policies optimized on such value functions can only behave according to a fixed, possibly suboptimal, degree of conservatism. However, this can be alleviated if we instead are able to learn policies for varying degrees of conservatism at training time and devise a method to dynamically choose one of them during evaluation. To do so, in this work, we propose learning value functions that additionally condition on the degree of conservatism, which we dub confidence-conditioned value functions. We derive a new form of a Bellman backup that simultaneously learns Q-values for any degree of confidence with high probability. By conditioning on confidence, our value functions enable adaptive strategies during online evaluation by controlling for confidence level using the history of observations thus far. This approach can be implemented in practice by conditioning the Q-function from existing conservative algorithms on the confidence. We theoretically show that our learned value functions produce conservative estimates of the true value at any desired confidence. Finally, we empirically show that our algorithm outperforms existing conservative offline RL algorithms on multiple discrete control domains.
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深度强化学习(RL)导致了许多最近和开创性的进步。但是,这些进步通常以培训的基础体系结构的规模增加以及用于训练它们的RL算法的复杂性提高,而均以增加规模的成本。这些增长反过来又使研究人员更难迅速原型新想法或复制已发表的RL算法。为了解决这些问题,这项工作描述了ACME,这是一个用于构建新型RL算法的框架,这些框架是专门设计的,用于启用使用简单的模块化组件构建的代理,这些组件可以在各种执行范围内使用。尽管ACME的主要目标是为算法开发提供一个框架,但第二个目标是提供重要或最先进算法的简单参考实现。这些实现既是对我们的设计决策的验证,也是对RL研究中可重复性的重要贡献。在这项工作中,我们描述了ACME内部做出的主要设计决策,并提供了有关如何使用其组件来实施各种算法的进一步详细信息。我们的实验为许多常见和最先进的算法提供了基准,并显示了如何为更大且更复杂的环境扩展这些算法。这突出了ACME的主要优点之一,即它可用于实现大型,分布式的RL算法,这些算法可以以较大的尺度运行,同时仍保持该实现的固有可读性。这项工作提出了第二篇文章的版本,恰好与模块化的增加相吻合,对离线,模仿和从演示算法学习以及作为ACME的一部分实现的各种新代理。
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依赖于太多的实验来学习良好的行动,目前的强化学习(RL)算法在现实世界的环境中具有有限的适用性,这可能太昂贵,无法探索探索。我们提出了一种批量RL算法,其中仅使用固定的脱机数据集来学习有效策略,而不是与环境的在线交互。批量RL中的有限数据产生了在培训数据中不充分表示的状态/行动的价值估计中的固有不确定性。当我们的候选政策从生成数据的候选政策发散时,这导致特别严重的外推。我们建议通过两个直接的惩罚来减轻这个问题:减少这种分歧的政策限制和减少过于乐观估计的价值约束。在全面的32个连续动作批量RL基准测试中,我们的方法对最先进的方法进行了比较,无论如何收集离线数据如何。
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Offline reinforcement learning (RL) refers to the problem of learning policies entirely from a large batch of previously collected data. This problem setting offers the promise of utilizing such datasets to acquire policies without any costly or dangerous active exploration. However, it is also challenging, due to the distributional shift between the offline training data and those states visited by the learned policy. Despite significant recent progress, the most successful prior methods are model-free and constrain the policy to the support of data, precluding generalization to unseen states. In this paper, we first observe that an existing model-based RL algorithm already produces significant gains in the offline setting compared to model-free approaches. However, standard model-based RL methods, designed for the online setting, do not provide an explicit mechanism to avoid the offline setting's distributional shift issue. Instead, we propose to modify the existing model-based RL methods by applying them with rewards artificially penalized by the uncertainty of the dynamics. We theoretically show that the algorithm maximizes a lower bound of the policy's return under the true MDP. We also characterize the trade-off between the gain and risk of leaving the support of the batch data. Our algorithm, Model-based Offline Policy Optimization (MOPO), outperforms standard model-based RL algorithms and prior state-of-the-art model-free offline RL algorithms on existing offline RL benchmarks and two challenging continuous control tasks that require generalizing from data collected for a different task. * equal contribution. † equal advising. Orders randomized.34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020),
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Off-policy reinforcement learning aims to leverage experience collected from prior policies for sample-efficient learning. However, in practice, commonly used off-policy approximate dynamic programming methods based on Q-learning and actor-critic methods are highly sensitive to the data distribution, and can make only limited progress without collecting additional on-policy data. As a step towards more robust off-policy algorithms, we study the setting where the off-policy experience is fixed and there is no further interaction with the environment. We identify bootstrapping error as a key source of instability in current methods. Bootstrapping error is due to bootstrapping from actions that lie outside of the training data distribution, and it accumulates via the Bellman backup operator. We theoretically analyze bootstrapping error, and demonstrate how carefully constraining action selection in the backup can mitigate it. Based on our analysis, we propose a practical algorithm, bootstrapping error accumulation reduction (BEAR). We demonstrate that BEAR is able to learn robustly from different off-policy distributions, including random and suboptimal demonstrations, on a range of continuous control tasks.
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最近的工作表明,离线增强学习(RL)可以作为序列建模问题(Chen等,2021; Janner等,2021)配制,并通过类似于大规模语言建模的方法解决。但是,RL的任何实际实例化也涉及一个在线组件,在线组件中,通过与环境的任务规定相互作用对被动离线数据集进行了预测的策略。我们建议在线决策变压器(ODT),这是一种基于序列建模的RL算法,该算法将离线预处理与统一框架中的在线填充融为一体。我们的框架将序列级熵正规仪与自回归建模目标结合使用,用于样品效率探索和填充。从经验上讲,我们表明ODT在D4RL基准上的绝对性能中与最先进的表现具有竞争力,但在填充过程中显示出更大的收益。
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有效的探索是深度强化学习的关键挑战。几种方法,例如行为先验,能够利用离线数据,以便在复杂任务上有效加速加强学习。但是,如果手动的任务与所证明的任务过度偏离,则此类方法的有效性是有限的。在我们的工作中,我们建议从离线数据中学习功能,这些功能由更加多样化的任务共享,例如动作与定向之间的相关性。因此,我们介绍了无国有先验,该先验直接在显示的轨迹中直接建模时间一致性,并且即使在对简单任务收集的数据进行培训时,也能够在复杂的任务中推动探索。此外,我们通过从政策和行动之前的概率混合物中动态采样动作,引入了一种新颖的集成方案,用于非政策强化学习中的动作研究。我们将我们的方法与强大的基线相提并论,并提供了经验证据,表明它可以在稀疏奖励环境下的长途持续控制任务中加速加强学习。
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离线增强学习吸引了人们对解决传统强化学习的应用挑战的极大兴趣。离线增强学习使用先前收集的数据集来训练代理而无需任何互动。为了解决对OOD的高估(分布式)动作的高估,保守的估计值对所有输入都具有较低的价值。以前的保守估计方法通常很难避免OOD作用对Q值估计的影响。此外,这些算法通常需要失去一些计算效率,以实现保守估计的目的。在本文中,我们提出了一种简单的保守估计方法,即双重保守估计(DCE),该方法使用两种保守估计方法来限制政策。我们的算法引入了V功能,以避免分发作用的错误,同时隐含得出保守的估计。此外,我们的算法使用可控的罚款术语,改变了培训中保守主义的程度。从理论上讲,我们说明了该方法如何影响OOD动作和分布动作的估计。我们的实验分别表明,两种保守的估计方法影响了所有国家行动的估计。 DCE展示了D4RL的最新性能。
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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.
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