Diversifying Policy Behaviors with Extrinsic Behavioral Curiosity

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Autores principales: Wan, Zhenglin, Yu, Xingrui, Bossens, David Mark, Lyu, Yueming, Guo, Qing, Fan, Flint Xiaofeng, Ong, Yew Soon, Tsang, Ivor
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author Wan, Zhenglin
Yu, Xingrui
Bossens, David Mark
Lyu, Yueming
Guo, Qing
Fan, Flint Xiaofeng
Ong, Yew Soon
Tsang, Ivor
author_facet Wan, Zhenglin
Yu, Xingrui
Bossens, David Mark
Lyu, Yueming
Guo, Qing
Fan, Flint Xiaofeng
Ong, Yew Soon
Tsang, Ivor
contents Imitation learning (IL) has shown promise in various applications (e.g. robot locomotion) but is often limited to learning a single expert policy, constraining behavior diversity and robustness in unpredictable real-world scenarios. To address this, we introduce Quality Diversity Inverse Reinforcement Learning (QD-IRL), a novel framework that integrates quality-diversity optimization with IRL methods, enabling agents to learn diverse behaviors from limited demonstrations. This work introduces Extrinsic Behavioral Curiosity (EBC), which allows agents to receive additional curiosity rewards from an external critic based on how novel the behaviors are with respect to a large behavioral archive. To validate the effectiveness of EBC in exploring diverse locomotion behaviors, we evaluate our method on multiple robot locomotion tasks. EBC improves the performance of QD-IRL instances with GAIL, VAIL, and DiffAIL across all included environments by up to 185%, 42%, and 150%, even surpassing expert performance by 20% in Humanoid. Furthermore, we demonstrate that EBC is applicable to Gradient-Arborescence-based Quality Diversity Reinforcement Learning (QD-RL) algorithms, where it substantially improves performance and provides a generic technique for learning behavioral-diverse policies. The source code of this work is provided at https://github.com/vanzll/EBC.
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spellingShingle Diversifying Policy Behaviors with Extrinsic Behavioral Curiosity
Wan, Zhenglin
Yu, Xingrui
Bossens, David Mark
Lyu, Yueming
Guo, Qing
Fan, Flint Xiaofeng
Ong, Yew Soon
Tsang, Ivor
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Imitation learning (IL) has shown promise in various applications (e.g. robot locomotion) but is often limited to learning a single expert policy, constraining behavior diversity and robustness in unpredictable real-world scenarios. To address this, we introduce Quality Diversity Inverse Reinforcement Learning (QD-IRL), a novel framework that integrates quality-diversity optimization with IRL methods, enabling agents to learn diverse behaviors from limited demonstrations. This work introduces Extrinsic Behavioral Curiosity (EBC), which allows agents to receive additional curiosity rewards from an external critic based on how novel the behaviors are with respect to a large behavioral archive. To validate the effectiveness of EBC in exploring diverse locomotion behaviors, we evaluate our method on multiple robot locomotion tasks. EBC improves the performance of QD-IRL instances with GAIL, VAIL, and DiffAIL across all included environments by up to 185%, 42%, and 150%, even surpassing expert performance by 20% in Humanoid. Furthermore, we demonstrate that EBC is applicable to Gradient-Arborescence-based Quality Diversity Reinforcement Learning (QD-RL) algorithms, where it substantially improves performance and provides a generic technique for learning behavioral-diverse policies. The source code of this work is provided at https://github.com/vanzll/EBC.
title Diversifying Policy Behaviors with Extrinsic Behavioral Curiosity
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06151