Robust Policy Expansion for Offline-to-Online RL under Diverse Data Corruption

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Autori principali: He, Longxiang, Ye, Deheng, Tan, Junbo, Wang, Xueqian, Shen, Li
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author He, Longxiang
Ye, Deheng
Tan, Junbo
Wang, Xueqian
Shen, Li
author_facet He, Longxiang
Ye, Deheng
Tan, Junbo
Wang, Xueqian
Shen, Li
contents Pretraining a policy on offline data followed by fine-tuning through online interactions, known as Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning (O2O RL), has emerged as a promising paradigm for real-world RL deployment. However, both offline datasets and online interactions in practical environments are often noisy or even maliciously corrupted, severely degrading the performance of O2O RL. Existing works primarily focus on mitigating the conservatism of offline policies via online exploration, while the robustness of O2O RL under data corruption, including states, actions, rewards, and dynamics, is still unexplored. In this work, we observe that data corruption induces heavy-tailed behavior in the policy, thereby substantially degrading the efficiency of online exploration. To address this issue, we incorporate Inverse Probability Weighted (IPW) into the online exploration policy to alleviate heavy-tailedness, and propose a novel, simple yet effective method termed $\textbf{RPEX}$: $\textbf{R}$obust $\textbf{P}$olicy $\textbf{EX}$pansion. Extensive experimental results on D4RL datasets demonstrate that RPEX achieves SOTA O2O performance across a wide range of data corruption scenarios. Code is available at $\href{https://github.com/felix-thu/RPEX}{https://github.com/felix-thu/RPEX}$.
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spellingShingle Robust Policy Expansion for Offline-to-Online RL under Diverse Data Corruption
He, Longxiang
Ye, Deheng
Tan, Junbo
Wang, Xueqian
Shen, Li
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Pretraining a policy on offline data followed by fine-tuning through online interactions, known as Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning (O2O RL), has emerged as a promising paradigm for real-world RL deployment. However, both offline datasets and online interactions in practical environments are often noisy or even maliciously corrupted, severely degrading the performance of O2O RL. Existing works primarily focus on mitigating the conservatism of offline policies via online exploration, while the robustness of O2O RL under data corruption, including states, actions, rewards, and dynamics, is still unexplored. In this work, we observe that data corruption induces heavy-tailed behavior in the policy, thereby substantially degrading the efficiency of online exploration. To address this issue, we incorporate Inverse Probability Weighted (IPW) into the online exploration policy to alleviate heavy-tailedness, and propose a novel, simple yet effective method termed $\textbf{RPEX}$: $\textbf{R}$obust $\textbf{P}$olicy $\textbf{EX}$pansion. Extensive experimental results on D4RL datasets demonstrate that RPEX achieves SOTA O2O performance across a wide range of data corruption scenarios. Code is available at $\href{https://github.com/felix-thu/RPEX}{https://github.com/felix-thu/RPEX}$.
title Robust Policy Expansion for Offline-to-Online RL under Diverse Data Corruption
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24748