Poster
Distributional Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Exploration
Borislav Mavrin · Hengshuai Yao · Linglong Kong · Kaiwen Wu · Yaoliang Yu

Tue Jun 11th 06:30 -- 09:00 PM @ Pacific Ballroom #102
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In distributional reinforcement learning (RL), the estimated distribution of value functions model both the parametric and intrinsic uncertainties. We propose a novel and efficient exploration method for deep RL that has two components. The first is a decaying schedule to suppress the intrinsic uncertainty. The second is an exploration bonus calculated from the upper quantiles of the learned distribution. In Atari 2600 games, our method achieves 483 % average gain across 49 games in cumulative rewards over QR-DQN. We also compared our algorithm with QR-DQN in a challenging 3D driving simulator (CARLA). Results show that our algorithm achieves nearoptimal safety rewards twice faster than QRDQN.

Keywords: Deep Reinforcement Learning · Theory and Algorithms

Author Information

Borislav Mavrin (University of Alberta)
Hengshuai Yao (Huawei Technologies)
Linglong Kong (University of Alberta)
Kaiwen Wu (University of Waterloo)
Yaoliang Yu (University of Waterloo)

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