Transferable Delay-Aware Reinforcement Learning via Implicit Causal Graph Modeling

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Auteurs principaux: Zhao, Chenran, Shi, Dianxi, Zhang, Yaowen, Qiu, Chunping, Yang, Shaowu
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author Zhao, Chenran
Shi, Dianxi
Zhang, Yaowen
Qiu, Chunping
Yang, Shaowu
author_facet Zhao, Chenran
Shi, Dianxi
Zhang, Yaowen
Qiu, Chunping
Yang, Shaowu
contents Random delays weaken the temporal correspondence between actions and subsequent state feedback, making it difficult for agents to identify the true propagation process of action effects. In cross-task scenarios, changes in task objectives and reward formulations further reduce the reusability of previously acquired task knowledge. To address this problem, this paper proposes a transferable delay-aware reinforcement learning method based on implicit causal graph modeling. The proposed method uses a field-node encoder to represent high-dimensional observations as latent states with node-level semantics, and employs a message-passing mechanism to characterize dynamic causal dependencies among nodes, thereby learning transferable structured representations and environment dynamics knowledge. On this basis, imagination-driven behavior learning and planning are incorporated to optimize policies in the latent space, enabling cross-task knowledge transfer and rapid adaptation. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms baseline methods on DMC continuous control tasks with random delays. Cross-task transfer experiments further demonstrate that the learned structured representations and dynamics knowledge can be effectively transferred to new tasks and significantly accelerate policy adaptation.
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spellingShingle Transferable Delay-Aware Reinforcement Learning via Implicit Causal Graph Modeling
Zhao, Chenran
Shi, Dianxi
Zhang, Yaowen
Qiu, Chunping
Yang, Shaowu
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Random delays weaken the temporal correspondence between actions and subsequent state feedback, making it difficult for agents to identify the true propagation process of action effects. In cross-task scenarios, changes in task objectives and reward formulations further reduce the reusability of previously acquired task knowledge. To address this problem, this paper proposes a transferable delay-aware reinforcement learning method based on implicit causal graph modeling. The proposed method uses a field-node encoder to represent high-dimensional observations as latent states with node-level semantics, and employs a message-passing mechanism to characterize dynamic causal dependencies among nodes, thereby learning transferable structured representations and environment dynamics knowledge. On this basis, imagination-driven behavior learning and planning are incorporated to optimize policies in the latent space, enabling cross-task knowledge transfer and rapid adaptation. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms baseline methods on DMC continuous control tasks with random delays. Cross-task transfer experiments further demonstrate that the learned structured representations and dynamics knowledge can be effectively transferred to new tasks and significantly accelerate policy adaptation.
title Transferable Delay-Aware Reinforcement Learning via Implicit Causal Graph Modeling
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12312