Related papers: OPIRL: Sample Efficient Off-Policy Inverse Reinforcement Learning via Distribution Matching

OPIRL: Sample Efficient Off-Policy Inverse Reinforcement Learning via Distribution Matching

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.04307v1
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 14:32:26 GMT
Title: OPIRL: Sample Efficient Off-Policy Inverse Reinforcement Learning via Distribution Matching
Authors: Hana Hoshino, Kei Ota, Asako Kanezaki, Rio Yokota
Abstract summary: Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) is attractive in scenarios where reward engineering can be tedious. Prior IRL algorithms use on-policy transitions, which require intensive sampling from the current policy for stable and optimal performance. We present Off-Policy Inverse Reinforcement Learning (OPIRL), which adopts off-policy data distribution instead of on-policy.
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Abstract: Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) is attractive in scenarios where reward engineering can be tedious. However, prior IRL algorithms use on-policy transitions, which require intensive sampling from the current policy for stable and optimal performance. This limits IRL applications in the real world, where environment interactions can become highly expensive. To tackle this problem, we present Off-Policy Inverse Reinforcement Learning (OPIRL), which (1) adopts off-policy data distribution instead of on-policy and enables significant reduction of the number of interactions with the environment, (2) learns a stationary reward function that is transferable with high generalization capabilities on changing dynamics, and (3) leverages mode-covering behavior for faster convergence. We demonstrate that our method is considerably more sample efficient and generalizes to novel environments through the experiments. Our method achieves better or comparable results on policy performance baselines with significantly fewer interactions. Furthermore, we empirically show that the recovered reward function generalizes to different tasks where prior arts are prone to fail.