Abstract
Action-constrained reinforcement learning (RL) is a widely-used approach in various real-world applications, such as scheduling in networked systems with resource constraints and control of a robot with kinematic constraints. While the existing projection-based approaches ensure zero constraint violation, they could suffer from the zero-gradient problem due to the tight coupling of the policy gradient and the projection, which results in sample-inefficient training and slow convergence. To tackle this issue, we propose a learning algorithm that decouples the action constraints from the policy parameter update by leveraging state-wise Frank-Wolfe and a regression-based policy update scheme. Moreover, we show that the proposed algorithm enjoys convergence and policy improvement properties in the tabular case as well as generalizes the popular DDPG algorithm for action-constrained RL in the general case. Through experiments, we demonstrate that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms the benchmark methods on a variety of control tasks.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 397-407 |
Number of pages | 11 |
State | Published - 27 Jul 2021 |
Event | 37th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: 27 Jul 2021 → 30 Jul 2021 |
Conference
Conference | 37th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI 2021 |
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City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 27/07/21 → 30/07/21 |