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    基于Bellman误差导向Actor的离线强化学习

    Offline Reinforcement Learning with Bellman Error-Guided Actor

    • 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,有效避免了与在线环境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往往因外推误差导致策略学习不稳定,且习得策略的泛化能力受限。针对这一核心问题,本文提出一种基于贝尔曼误差导向Actor的离线强化学习方法(Offline Reinforcement Learning with Bellman Error-Guided Actor, BEGA)。BEGA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,BEGA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基准中的Gym-MuJoCo连续控制任务上的实验结果表明,BEGA不仅提高了Q值估计的准确性和策略的泛化能力,而且展现出优于先进基线方法的性能。在涵盖不同质量等级的15个数据集中,BEGA相较于基线方法实现了9.7%至36.9%的性能提升。

       

      Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning leverages static, pre-collected historical datasets to learn optimal policies, effectively avoiding the high costs and potential risks caused by interacting with the online environment, which presents broad application prospects in safety-critical fields such as robotics, autonomous driving, and healthcare. However, during the learning process, offline reinforcement learning methods often suffer from instability and limited generalization ability of the learned policy due to extrapolation errors. To address this core issue, this paper proposes an offline reinforcement learning method with Bellman error-guided actor (BEGA). BEGA explicitly introduces a dynamic Bellman error constraint mechanism during the policy improvement phase, which adaptively adjusts the policy update based on the reliability of Q-value estimation. Specifically, when the Q-value estimation exhibits significant bias, BEGA can automatically prevent the policy from over-exploring 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 Gym-MuJoCo continuous control tasks within the D4RL benchmark show that BEGA not only improves the accuracy of Q-value estimation and the generalization ability of policy, but also exhibits superior performance compared with the baselines. Across 15 datasets covering different quality levels, BEGA achieves a performance improvement ranging from 9.7% to 36.9% over the baselines.

       

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