On context distribution shift in task representation learning for online meta RL

C Zhao, Z Zhou, B Liu - International Conference on Intelligent Computing, 2023 - Springer
C Zhao, Z Zhou, B Liu
International Conference on Intelligent Computing, 2023Springer
Abstract Offline Meta Reinforcement Learning (OMRL) aims to learn transferable knowledge
from offline datasets to enhance the learning process for new target tasks. Context-based
Reinforcement Learning (RL) adopts a context encoder to expediently adapt the agent to
new tasks by inferring the task representation, and then adjusting the policy based on this
inferred representation. In this work, we focus on context-based OMRL, specifically on the
challenge of learning task representation for OMRL. We conduct experiments that …
Abstract
Offline Meta Reinforcement Learning (OMRL) aims to learn transferable knowledge from offline datasets to enhance the learning process for new target tasks. Context-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) adopts a context encoder to expediently adapt the agent to new tasks by inferring the task representation, and then adjusting the policy based on this inferred representation. In this work, we focus on context-based OMRL, specifically on the challenge of learning task representation for OMRL. We conduct experiments that demonstrate that the context encoder trained on offline datasets might encounter distribution shift between the contexts used for training and testing. To overcome this problem, we present a hard-sampling-based strategy to train a robust task context encoder. Our experimental findings on diverse continuous control tasks reveal that utilizing our approach yields more robust task representations and better testing performance in terms of accumulated returns compared to baseline methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/ZJLAB-AMMI/HS-OMRL.
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