对于强化学习的顺序动作诱导的不变表示
Dayang Liang1, Qihang Chen1, Yunlong Liu1
1Department of Automation, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
概括
本研究介绍了顺序动作诱导的不变表示 (SAR),这是一种用于视觉强化学习的新方法. 通过利用动作序列,SAR有效地从有分心的观测中提取与任务相关的信息.
科学领域:
- 人工智能的人工智能
- 机器学习 机器学习
- 机器人技术 机器人技术 机器人技术
背景情况:
- 从高维,视觉分散注意力的观测中学习与任务相关的状态表示是视觉增强学习的一个关键挑战.
- 现有的无监督表示学习方法 (双模拟,对比,预测,重建) 在处理分心和稀疏奖励方面面临局限性.
研究的目的:
- 在视觉分散注意力的环境中开发一种强大的方法来提取与任务相关的状态表示.
- 通过有效地分离与任务相关的和无关的信息来提高强化学习代理的性能.
主要方法:
- 提出序列动作诱导的不变表示 (SAR),将动作序列纳入表示学习.
- 模拟动作序列概率分布的特征函数,以优化状态编码器.
- 在使用顺序行动的观察中,将受控 (与任务相关) 和不受控制 (与任务无关) 的信息分离出来.
主要成果:
- 在分散注意力的DeepMind控制套件上实现了最先进的性能,超过了强大的基线.
- 在现实世界的自动驾驶场景 (CARLA) 中表现出有效性,具有自然分心.
- 通过泛化衰变和t-SNE可视化进行的分析证实了该方法能够忽略不相关信息.
结论:
- SAR有效地从杂的观测中提取与任务相关的表示,即使有显著的视觉分心.
- 该方法显示出强大的概括能力和适用于现实世界的问题,如自动驾驶.
- 利用动作序列是改善对象学习在具有挑战性的强化学习领域的一个有希望的方向.
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