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D-Shape: Demonstration-Shaped Reinforcement Learning via Goal Conditioning.
Caroline
Wang, Garrett Warnell, and Peter
Stone.
In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS),
May 2023.
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While combining imitation learning (IL) and reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising way to address poor sample efficiency in autonomous behavior acquisition, methods that do so typically assume that the requisite behavior demonstrations are provided by an expert that behaves optimally with respect to a task reward. If, however, suboptimal demonstrations are provided, a fundamental challenge appears in that the demonstration- matching objective of IL conflicts with the return-maximization objective of RL. This paper introduces D-Shape, a new method for combining IL and RL that uses ideas from reward shaping and goal-conditioned RL to resolve the above conflict. D-Shape allows learning from suboptimal demonstrations while retaining the ability to find the optimal policy with respect to the task reward. We experimentally validate D-Shape in sparse-reward gridworld domains, showing that it both improves over RL in terms of sample efficiency and converges consistently to the optimal policy in the presence of suboptimal demonstrations.
@InProceedings{aamas23-wang,
author = {Caroline Wang and Garrett Warnell and Peter Stone},
title = {D-Shape: Demonstration-Shaped Reinforcement Learning via Goal Conditioning},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)},
location = {London, UK},
month = {May},
year = {2023},
abstract = {
While combining imitation learning (IL) and reinforcement learning (RL)
is a promising way to address poor sample efficiency in autonomous behavior
acquisition, methods that do so typically assume that the requisite
behavior demonstrations are provided by an expert that behaves optimally
with respect to a task reward. If, however, suboptimal demonstrations are
provided, a fundamental challenge appears in that the demonstration-
matching objective of IL conflicts with the return-maximization objective
of RL. This paper introduces D-Shape, a new method for combining IL and RL
that uses ideas from reward shaping and goal-conditioned RL to resolve the
above conflict. D-Shape allows learning from suboptimal demonstrations
while retaining the ability to find the optimal policy with respect to the
task reward. We experimentally validate D-Shape in sparse-reward gridworld
domains, showing that it both improves over RL in terms of sample
efficiency and converges consistently to the optimal policy in the presence
of suboptimal demonstrations.
},
}
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