ACL-QL: Adaptive Conservative Level in Q-Learning for Offline Reinforcement Learning
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| author | Wu, Kun Zhao, Yinuo Xu, Zhiyuan Che, Zhengping Yin, Chengxiang Liu, Chi Harold Feng, Feiferi Tang, Jian |
| author_facet | Wu, Kun Zhao, Yinuo Xu, Zhiyuan Che, Zhengping Yin, Chengxiang Liu, Chi Harold Feng, Feiferi Tang, Jian |
| contents | Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL), which operates solely on static datasets without further interactions with the environment, provides an appealing alternative to learning a safe and promising control policy. The prevailing methods typically learn a conservative policy to mitigate the problem of Q-value overestimation, but it is prone to overdo it, leading to an overly conservative policy. Moreover, they optimize all samples equally with fixed constraints, lacking the nuanced ability to control conservative levels in a fine-grained manner. Consequently, this limitation results in a performance decline. To address the above two challenges in a united way, we propose a framework, Adaptive Conservative Level in Q-Learning (ACL-QL), which limits the Q-values in a mild range and enables adaptive control on the conservative level over each state-action pair, i.e., lifting the Q-values more for good transitions and less for bad transitions. We theoretically analyze the conditions under which the conservative level of the learned Q-function can be limited in a mild range and how to optimize each transition adaptively. Motivated by the theoretical analysis, we propose a novel algorithm, ACL-QL, which uses two learnable adaptive weight functions to control the conservative level over each transition. Subsequently, we design a monotonicity loss and surrogate losses to train the adaptive weight functions, Q-function, and policy network alternatively. We evaluate ACL-QL on the commonly used D4RL benchmark and conduct extensive ablation studies to illustrate the effectiveness and state-of-the-art performance compared to existing offline DRL baselines. |
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| spellingShingle | ACL-QL: Adaptive Conservative Level in Q-Learning for Offline Reinforcement Learning Wu, Kun Zhao, Yinuo Xu, Zhiyuan Che, Zhengping Yin, Chengxiang Liu, Chi Harold Feng, Feiferi Tang, Jian Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Robotics Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL), which operates solely on static datasets without further interactions with the environment, provides an appealing alternative to learning a safe and promising control policy. The prevailing methods typically learn a conservative policy to mitigate the problem of Q-value overestimation, but it is prone to overdo it, leading to an overly conservative policy. Moreover, they optimize all samples equally with fixed constraints, lacking the nuanced ability to control conservative levels in a fine-grained manner. Consequently, this limitation results in a performance decline. To address the above two challenges in a united way, we propose a framework, Adaptive Conservative Level in Q-Learning (ACL-QL), which limits the Q-values in a mild range and enables adaptive control on the conservative level over each state-action pair, i.e., lifting the Q-values more for good transitions and less for bad transitions. We theoretically analyze the conditions under which the conservative level of the learned Q-function can be limited in a mild range and how to optimize each transition adaptively. Motivated by the theoretical analysis, we propose a novel algorithm, ACL-QL, which uses two learnable adaptive weight functions to control the conservative level over each transition. Subsequently, we design a monotonicity loss and surrogate losses to train the adaptive weight functions, Q-function, and policy network alternatively. We evaluate ACL-QL on the commonly used D4RL benchmark and conduct extensive ablation studies to illustrate the effectiveness and state-of-the-art performance compared to existing offline DRL baselines. |
| title | ACL-QL: Adaptive Conservative Level in Q-Learning for Offline Reinforcement Learning |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16848 |