Leveraging Offline Data in Online Reinforcement Learning
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04974v2
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:11:13 GMT
- Title: Leveraging Offline Data in Online Reinforcement Learning
- Authors: Andrew Wagenmaker, Aldo Pacchiano
- Abstract summary: Two central paradigms have emerged in the reinforcement learning (RL) community: online RL and offline RL.
In the online RL setting, the agent has no prior knowledge of the environment, and must interact with it in order to find an $epsilon$-optimal policy.
In the offline RL setting, the learner instead has access to a fixed dataset to learn from, but is unable to otherwise interact with the environment, and must obtain the best policy it can from this offline data.
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- Abstract: Two central paradigms have emerged in the reinforcement learning (RL)
community: online RL and offline RL. In the online RL setting, the agent has no
prior knowledge of the environment, and must interact with it in order to find
an $\epsilon$-optimal policy. In the offline RL setting, the learner instead
has access to a fixed dataset to learn from, but is unable to otherwise
interact with the environment, and must obtain the best policy it can from this
offline data. Practical scenarios often motivate an intermediate setting: if we
have some set of offline data and, in addition, may also interact with the
environment, how can we best use the offline data to minimize the number of
online interactions necessary to learn an $\epsilon$-optimal policy?
In this work, we consider this setting, which we call the \textsf{FineTuneRL}
setting, for MDPs with linear structure. We characterize the necessary number
of online samples needed in this setting given access to some offline dataset,
and develop an algorithm, \textsc{FTPedel}, which is provably optimal, up to
$H$ factors. We show through an explicit example that combining offline data
with online interactions can lead to a provable improvement over either purely
offline or purely online RL. Finally, our results illustrate the distinction
between \emph{verifiable} learning, the typical setting considered in online
RL, and \emph{unverifiable} learning, the setting often considered in offline
RL, and show that there is a formal separation between these regimes.
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