SAMBO-RL: Shifts-aware Model-based Offline Reinforcement Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12830v2
• Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:57:15 GMT
• Title: SAMBO-RL: Shifts-aware Model-based Offline Reinforcement Learning
• Authors: Wang Luo, Haoran Li, Zicheng Zhang, Congying Han, Jiayu Lv, Tiande Guo,
• Abstract summary: Model-based offline reinforcement learning trains policies using pre-collected datasets and learned environment models. This paper offers a comprehensive analysis that disentangles the problem into two fundamental components: model bias and policy shift. We introduce Shifts-aware Model-based Offline Reinforcement Learning (SAMBO-RL), a practical framework that efficiently trains classifiers to approximate SAR for policy optimization.
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• Abstract: Model-based offline reinforcement learning trains policies using pre-collected datasets and learned environment models, eliminating the need for direct real-world environment interaction. However, this paradigm is inherently challenged by distribution shift (DS). Existing methods address this issue by leveraging off-policy mechanisms and estimating model uncertainty, but they often result in inconsistent objectives and lack a unified theoretical foundation. This paper offers a comprehensive analysis that disentangles the problem into two fundamental components: model bias and policy shift. Our theoretical and empirical investigations reveal how these factors distort value estimation and restrict policy optimization. To tackle these challenges, we derive a novel Shifts-aware Reward (SAR) through a unified probabilistic inference framework, which modifies the vanilla reward to refine value learning and facilitate policy training. Building on this, we introduce Shifts-aware Model-based Offline Reinforcement Learning (SAMBO-RL), a practical framework that efficiently trains classifiers to approximate SAR for policy optimization. Empirical experiments show that SAR effectively mitigates DS, and SAMBO-RL achieves superior or comparable performance across various benchmarks, underscoring its effectiveness and validating our theoretical analysis.

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