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Main Authors: Gu, Shangding, Yang, Long, Du, Yali, Chen, Guang, Walter, Florian, Wang, Jun, Knoll, Alois
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Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10330
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author Gu, Shangding
Yang, Long
Du, Yali
Chen, Guang
Walter, Florian
Wang, Jun
Knoll, Alois
author_facet Gu, Shangding
Yang, Long
Du, Yali
Chen, Guang
Walter, Florian
Wang, Jun
Knoll, Alois
contents Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved tremendous success in many complex decision-making tasks. However, safety concerns are raised during deploying RL in real-world applications, leading to a growing demand for safe RL algorithms, such as in autonomous driving and robotics scenarios. While safe control has a long history, the study of safe RL algorithms is still in the early stages. To establish a good foundation for future safe RL research, in this paper, we provide a review of safe RL from the perspectives of methods, theories, and applications. Firstly, we review the progress of safe RL from five dimensions and come up with five crucial problems for safe RL being deployed in real-world applications, coined as "2H3W". Secondly, we analyze the algorithm and theory progress from the perspectives of answering the "2H3W" problems. Particularly, the sample complexity of safe RL algorithms is reviewed and discussed, followed by an introduction to the applications and benchmarks of safe RL algorithms. Finally, we open the discussion of the challenging problems in safe RL, hoping to inspire future research on this thread. To advance the study of safe RL algorithms, we release an open-sourced repository containing the implementations of major safe RL algorithms at the link: https://github.com/chauncygu/Safe-Reinforcement-Learning-Baselines.git.
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spellingShingle A Review of Safe Reinforcement Learning: Methods, Theory and Applications
Gu, Shangding
Yang, Long
Du, Yali
Chen, Guang
Walter, Florian
Wang, Jun
Knoll, Alois
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved tremendous success in many complex decision-making tasks. However, safety concerns are raised during deploying RL in real-world applications, leading to a growing demand for safe RL algorithms, such as in autonomous driving and robotics scenarios. While safe control has a long history, the study of safe RL algorithms is still in the early stages. To establish a good foundation for future safe RL research, in this paper, we provide a review of safe RL from the perspectives of methods, theories, and applications. Firstly, we review the progress of safe RL from five dimensions and come up with five crucial problems for safe RL being deployed in real-world applications, coined as "2H3W". Secondly, we analyze the algorithm and theory progress from the perspectives of answering the "2H3W" problems. Particularly, the sample complexity of safe RL algorithms is reviewed and discussed, followed by an introduction to the applications and benchmarks of safe RL algorithms. Finally, we open the discussion of the challenging problems in safe RL, hoping to inspire future research on this thread. To advance the study of safe RL algorithms, we release an open-sourced repository containing the implementations of major safe RL algorithms at the link: https://github.com/chauncygu/Safe-Reinforcement-Learning-Baselines.git.
title A Review of Safe Reinforcement Learning: Methods, Theory and Applications
topic Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10330