Search-Based Adversarial Estimates for Improving Sample Efficiency in Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning

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Autori principali: Malato, Federico, Hautamaki, Ville
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author Malato, Federico
Hautamaki, Ville
author_facet Malato, Federico
Hautamaki, Ville
contents Sample inefficiency is a long-lasting challenge in deep reinforcement learning (DRL). Despite dramatic improvements have been made, the problem is far from being solved and is especially challenging in environments with sparse or delayed rewards. In our work, we propose to use Adversarial Estimates as a new, simple and efficient approach to mitigate this problem for a class of feedback-based DRL algorithms. Our approach leverages latent similarity search from a small set of human-collected trajectories to boost learning, using only five minutes of human-recorded experience. The results of our study show algorithms trained with Adversarial Estimates converge faster than their original version. Moreover, we discuss how our approach could enable learning in feedback-based algorithms in extreme scenarios with very sparse rewards.
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spellingShingle Search-Based Adversarial Estimates for Improving Sample Efficiency in Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning
Malato, Federico
Hautamaki, Ville
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Sample inefficiency is a long-lasting challenge in deep reinforcement learning (DRL). Despite dramatic improvements have been made, the problem is far from being solved and is especially challenging in environments with sparse or delayed rewards. In our work, we propose to use Adversarial Estimates as a new, simple and efficient approach to mitigate this problem for a class of feedback-based DRL algorithms. Our approach leverages latent similarity search from a small set of human-collected trajectories to boost learning, using only five minutes of human-recorded experience. The results of our study show algorithms trained with Adversarial Estimates converge faster than their original version. Moreover, we discuss how our approach could enable learning in feedback-based algorithms in extreme scenarios with very sparse rewards.
title Search-Based Adversarial Estimates for Improving Sample Efficiency in Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01558