Fast Rates for Maximum Entropy Exploration

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Fast Rates for Maximum Entropy Exploration
المؤلفون: Tiapkin, Daniil, Belomestny, Denis, Calandriello, Daniele, Moulines, Eric, Munos, Remi, Naumov, Alexey, Perrault, Pierre, Tang, Yunhao, Valko, Michal, Menard, Pierre
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Computer Science
Statistics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Statistics - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Machine Learning
الوصف: We address the challenge of exploration in reinforcement learning (RL) when the agent operates in an unknown environment with sparse or no rewards. In this work, we study the maximum entropy exploration problem of two different types. The first type is visitation entropy maximization previously considered by Hazan et al.(2019) in the discounted setting. For this type of exploration, we propose a game-theoretic algorithm that has $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(H^3S^2A/\varepsilon^2)$ sample complexity thus improving the $\varepsilon$-dependence upon existing results, where $S$ is a number of states, $A$ is a number of actions, $H$ is an episode length, and $\varepsilon$ is a desired accuracy. The second type of entropy we study is the trajectory entropy. This objective function is closely related to the entropy-regularized MDPs, and we propose a simple algorithm that has a sample complexity of order $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(\mathrm{poly}(S,A,H)/\varepsilon)$. Interestingly, it is the first theoretical result in RL literature that establishes the potential statistical advantage of regularized MDPs for exploration. Finally, we apply developed regularization techniques to reduce sample complexity of visitation entropy maximization to $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(H^2SA/\varepsilon^2)$, yielding a statistical separation between maximum entropy exploration and reward-free exploration.
Comment: ICML-2023
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08059
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2303.08059
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv