Safe Reinforcement Learning via Hierarchical Adaptive Chance-Constraint Safeguards

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العنوان: Safe Reinforcement Learning via Hierarchical Adaptive Chance-Constraint Safeguards
المؤلفون: Chen, Zhaorun, Zhao, Zhuokai, He, Tairan, Chen, Binhao, Zhao, Xuhao, Gong, Liang, Liu, Chengliang
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Robotics
الوصف: Ensuring safety in Reinforcement Learning (RL), typically framed as a Constrained Markov Decision Process (CMDP), is crucial for real-world exploration applications. Current approaches in handling CMDP struggle to balance optimality and feasibility, as direct optimization methods cannot ensure state-wise in-training safety, and projection-based methods correct actions inefficiently through lengthy iterations. To address these challenges, we propose Adaptive Chance-constrained Safeguards (ACS), an adaptive, model-free safe RL algorithm using the safety recovery rate as a surrogate chance constraint to iteratively ensure safety during exploration and after achieving convergence. Theoretical analysis indicates that the relaxed probabilistic constraint sufficiently guarantees forward invariance to the safe set. And extensive experiments conducted on both simulated and real-world safety-critical tasks demonstrate its effectiveness in enforcing safety (nearly zero-violation) while preserving optimality (+23.8%), robustness, and fast response in stochastic real-world settings.
Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03379
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2310.03379
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv