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Main Authors: Shu, Tianye, Shang, Ke, Gong, Cheng, Nan, Yang, Ishibuchi, Hisao
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18924
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author Shu, Tianye
Shang, Ke
Gong, Cheng
Nan, Yang
Ishibuchi, Hisao
author_facet Shu, Tianye
Shang, Ke
Gong, Cheng
Nan, Yang
Ishibuchi, Hisao
contents For a control problem with multiple conflicting objectives, there exists a set of Pareto-optimal policies called the Pareto set instead of a single optimal policy. When a multi-objective control problem is continuous and complex, traditional multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) algorithms search for many Pareto-optimal deep policies to approximate the Pareto set, which is quite resource-consuming. In this paper, we propose a simple and resource-efficient MORL algorithm that learns a continuous representation of the Pareto set in a high-dimensional policy parameter space using a single hypernet. The learned hypernet can directly generate various well-trained policy networks for different user preferences. We compare our method with two state-of-the-art MORL algorithms on seven multi-objective continuous robot control problems. Experimental results show that our method achieves the best overall performance with the least training parameters. An interesting observation is that the Pareto set is well approximated by a curved line or surface in a high-dimensional parameter space. This observation will provide insight for researchers to design new MORL algorithms.
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spellingShingle Learning Pareto Set for Multi-Objective Continuous Robot Control
Shu, Tianye
Shang, Ke
Gong, Cheng
Nan, Yang
Ishibuchi, Hisao
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
For a control problem with multiple conflicting objectives, there exists a set of Pareto-optimal policies called the Pareto set instead of a single optimal policy. When a multi-objective control problem is continuous and complex, traditional multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) algorithms search for many Pareto-optimal deep policies to approximate the Pareto set, which is quite resource-consuming. In this paper, we propose a simple and resource-efficient MORL algorithm that learns a continuous representation of the Pareto set in a high-dimensional policy parameter space using a single hypernet. The learned hypernet can directly generate various well-trained policy networks for different user preferences. We compare our method with two state-of-the-art MORL algorithms on seven multi-objective continuous robot control problems. Experimental results show that our method achieves the best overall performance with the least training parameters. An interesting observation is that the Pareto set is well approximated by a curved line or surface in a high-dimensional parameter space. This observation will provide insight for researchers to design new MORL algorithms.
title Learning Pareto Set for Multi-Objective Continuous Robot Control
topic Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18924