Offline Reinforcement Learning with Closed-Form Policy Improvement Operators
| Autor: | Li, Jiachen, Zhang, Edwin, Yin, Ming, Bai, Qinxun, Wang, Yu-Xiang, Wang, William Yang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Behavior constrained policy optimization has been demonstrated to be a successful paradigm for tackling Offline Reinforcement Learning. By exploiting historical transitions, a policy is trained to maximize a learned value function while constrained by the behavior policy to avoid a significant distributional shift. In this paper, we propose our closed-form policy improvement operators. We make a novel observation that the behavior constraint naturally motivates the use of first-order Taylor approximation, leading to a linear approximation of the policy objective. Additionally, as practical datasets are usually collected by heterogeneous policies, we model the behavior policies as a Gaussian Mixture and overcome the induced optimization difficulties by leveraging the LogSumExp's lower bound and Jensen's Inequality, giving rise to a closed-form policy improvement operator. We instantiate offline RL algorithms with our novel policy improvement operators and empirically demonstrate their effectiveness over state-of-the-art algorithms on the standard D4RL benchmark. Our code is available at https://cfpi-icml23.github.io/. Comment: Accepted at ICML 2023 |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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