Neighboring State-based Exploration for Reinforcement Learning

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Main Authors: Li, Yu-Teng, Lin, Justin, Cheng, Jeffery, Pachuca, Pedro
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author Li, Yu-Teng
Lin, Justin
Cheng, Jeffery
Pachuca, Pedro
author_facet Li, Yu-Teng
Lin, Justin
Cheng, Jeffery
Pachuca, Pedro
contents Reinforcement Learning is a powerful tool to model decision-making processes. However, it relies on an exploration-exploitation trade-off that remains an open challenge for many tasks. In this work, we study neighboring state-based, model-free exploration led by the intuition that, for an early-stage agent, considering actions derived from a bounded region of nearby states may lead to better actions when exploring. We propose two algorithms that choose exploratory actions based on a survey of nearby states, and find that one of our methods, $ρ$-explore, consistently outperforms the Double DQN baseline in an discrete environment by 49% in terms of Eval Reward Return.
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spellingShingle Neighboring State-based Exploration for Reinforcement Learning
Li, Yu-Teng
Lin, Justin
Cheng, Jeffery
Pachuca, Pedro
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Reinforcement Learning is a powerful tool to model decision-making processes. However, it relies on an exploration-exploitation trade-off that remains an open challenge for many tasks. In this work, we study neighboring state-based, model-free exploration led by the intuition that, for an early-stage agent, considering actions derived from a bounded region of nearby states may lead to better actions when exploring. We propose two algorithms that choose exploratory actions based on a survey of nearby states, and find that one of our methods, $ρ$-explore, consistently outperforms the Double DQN baseline in an discrete environment by 49% in terms of Eval Reward Return.
title Neighboring State-based Exploration for Reinforcement Learning
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10712