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    基于Q值Bellman误差正则化的离线Actor-Critic

    Offline Actor-Critic Based on Q-Value Bellman Error Regularization

    • 摘要: 离线强化学习利用静态、预先收集的历史数据集来学习最优策略,有效避免了与环境在线交互带来的高昂成本与潜在风险,在机器人、自动驾驶和医疗健康等安全要求严苛领域展现出广泛的应用前景。然而,离线强化学习方法在学习过程中通常因外推误差导致策略学习不稳定,并因保守性约束限制了习得策略的泛化能力。针对这一核心问题,提出一种基于Q值Bellman误差正则化的离线Actor-Critic方法(offline Actor-Critic based on Q-value Bellman error regularization,ACBER)。ACBER在策略改进阶段显式引入动态的Bellman误差约束机制,根据Q值估计的可靠性来自适应调整策略更新。具体而言,当Q值估计偏差较大时,ACBER能够自动抑制策略向不确定区域的过度探索,从而有效稳定策略学习过程,并减少策略评估误差对策略更新的误导。D4RL基准上的实验结果表明,相较于主流基线方法,ACBER在Gym-MuJoCo运动控制任务中实现了2.81%~36.94%的性能提升,且在antmaze稀疏奖励导航任务中展现出优异的次优轨迹拼接能力,从而验证了其在提升策略泛化能力方面的有效性。

       

      Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning leverages static, pre-collected historical datasets to learn optimal policies, effectively avoiding the high costs and potential risks caused by online interaction with the environment. It demonstrates broad application prospects in safety-critical fields such as robotics, autonomous driving, and healthcare. However, during the learning process, offline reinforcement learning methods typically suffer from unstable policy learning due to extrapolation errors, and the generalization ability of the learned policy is limited by conservative constraints. To address this core issue, this paper proposes an offline Actor-Critic method based on Q-value Bellman error regularization (ACBER). ACBER explicitly introduces a dynamic Bellman error constraint mechanism during the policy improvement phase, adaptively adjusting policy updates based on the reliability of Q-value estimation. Specifically, when the Q-value estimation exhibits significant bias, ACBER automatically suppresses the policy’s excessive exploration toward uncertain regions, thereby effectively stabilizing the policy learning process and reducing the misguiding impact of policy evaluation errors on policy updates. Experimental results on the D4RL benchmark show that, compared with mainstream baselines, ACBER achieves performance improvements ranging from 2.81% to 36.94% on the Gym-MuJoCo locomotion control tasks, and exhibits superior suboptimal trajectory stitching capability on the antmaze sparse-reward navigation tasks, thereby validating its effectiveness in enhancing policy generalization.

       

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