Demonstration-Regularized RL

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Demonstration-Regularized RL
المؤلفون: Tiapkin, Daniil, Belomestny, Denis, Calandriello, Daniele, Moulines, Eric, Naumov, Alexey, Perrault, Pierre, Valko, Michal, Menard, Pierre
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Computer Science
Statistics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Statistics - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Machine Learning
الوصف: Incorporating expert demonstrations has empirically helped to improve the sample efficiency of reinforcement learning (RL). This paper quantifies theoretically to what extent this extra information reduces RL's sample complexity. In particular, we study the demonstration-regularized reinforcement learning that leverages the expert demonstrations by KL-regularization for a policy learned by behavior cloning. Our findings reveal that using $N^{\mathrm{E}}$ expert demonstrations enables the identification of an optimal policy at a sample complexity of order $\widetilde{O}(\mathrm{Poly}(S,A,H)/(\varepsilon^2 N^{\mathrm{E}}))$ in finite and $\widetilde{O}(\mathrm{Poly}(d,H)/(\varepsilon^2 N^{\mathrm{E}}))$ in linear Markov decision processes, where $\varepsilon$ is the target precision, $H$ the horizon, $A$ the number of action, $S$ the number of states in the finite case and $d$ the dimension of the feature space in the linear case. As a by-product, we provide tight convergence guarantees for the behaviour cloning procedure under general assumptions on the policy classes. Additionally, we establish that demonstration-regularized methods are provably efficient for reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). In this respect, we provide theoretical evidence showing the benefits of KL-regularization for RLHF in tabular and linear MDPs. Interestingly, we avoid pessimism injection by employing computationally feasible regularization to handle reward estimation uncertainty, thus setting our approach apart from the prior works.
Comment: This revision fixes an error due to use of some incorrect results (Lemma 32, Corollary 11 by Talebi & Maillard, 2018) in the proof of Theorem 8. The condition for the RLHF results have slightly changed
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17303
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2310.17303
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv