Video-Enhanced Offline Reinforcement Learning: A Model-Based Approach

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06482v2
• Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 09:20:41 GMT
• Title: Video-Enhanced Offline Reinforcement Learning: A Model-Based Approach
• Authors: Minting Pan, Yitao Zheng, Jiajian Li, Yunbo Wang, Xiaokang Yang,
• Abstract summary: Video-Enhanced Offline RL (VeoRL) is a model-based method that constructs an interactive world model from diverse, unlabeled video data readily available online.<n>VeoRL achieves substantial performance gains across visual control tasks in robotic manipulation, autonomous driving, and open-world video games.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) enables policy optimization using static datasets, avoiding the risks and costs of extensive real-world exploration. However, it struggles with suboptimal offline behaviors and inaccurate value estimation due to the lack of environmental interaction. We present Video-Enhanced Offline RL (VeoRL), a model-based method that constructs an interactive world model from diverse, unlabeled video data readily available online. Leveraging model-based behavior guidance, our approach transfers commonsense knowledge of control policy and physical dynamics from natural videos to the RL agent within the target domain. VeoRL achieves substantial performance gains (over 100% in some cases) across visual control tasks in robotic manipulation, autonomous driving, and open-world video games.

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