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Autori principali: Chen, Zhaorun, Zhao, Zhuokai, He, Tairan, Chen, Binhao, Zhao, Xuhao, Gong, Liang, Liu, Chengliang
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2023
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03379
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author Chen, Zhaorun
Zhao, Zhuokai
He, Tairan
Chen, Binhao
Zhao, Xuhao
Gong, Liang
Liu, Chengliang
author_facet Chen, Zhaorun
Zhao, Zhuokai
He, Tairan
Chen, Binhao
Zhao, Xuhao
Gong, Liang
Liu, Chengliang
contents Ensuring safety in Reinforcement Learning (RL), typically framed as a Constrained Markov Decision Process (CMDP), is crucial for real-world exploration applications. Current approaches in handling CMDP struggle to balance optimality and feasibility, as direct optimization methods cannot ensure state-wise in-training safety, and projection-based methods correct actions inefficiently through lengthy iterations. To address these challenges, we propose Adaptive Chance-constrained Safeguards (ACS), an adaptive, model-free safe RL algorithm using the safety recovery rate as a surrogate chance constraint to iteratively ensure safety during exploration and after achieving convergence. Theoretical analysis indicates that the relaxed probabilistic constraint sufficiently guarantees forward invariance to the safe set. And extensive experiments conducted on both simulated and real-world safety-critical tasks demonstrate its effectiveness in enforcing safety (nearly zero-violation) while preserving optimality (+23.8%), robustness, and fast response in stochastic real-world settings.
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spellingShingle Safe Reinforcement Learning via Hierarchical Adaptive Chance-Constraint Safeguards
Chen, Zhaorun
Zhao, Zhuokai
He, Tairan
Chen, Binhao
Zhao, Xuhao
Gong, Liang
Liu, Chengliang
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Ensuring safety in Reinforcement Learning (RL), typically framed as a Constrained Markov Decision Process (CMDP), is crucial for real-world exploration applications. Current approaches in handling CMDP struggle to balance optimality and feasibility, as direct optimization methods cannot ensure state-wise in-training safety, and projection-based methods correct actions inefficiently through lengthy iterations. To address these challenges, we propose Adaptive Chance-constrained Safeguards (ACS), an adaptive, model-free safe RL algorithm using the safety recovery rate as a surrogate chance constraint to iteratively ensure safety during exploration and after achieving convergence. Theoretical analysis indicates that the relaxed probabilistic constraint sufficiently guarantees forward invariance to the safe set. And extensive experiments conducted on both simulated and real-world safety-critical tasks demonstrate its effectiveness in enforcing safety (nearly zero-violation) while preserving optimality (+23.8%), robustness, and fast response in stochastic real-world settings.
title Safe Reinforcement Learning via Hierarchical Adaptive Chance-Constraint Safeguards
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03379