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Offline Reinforcement Learning as Anti-Exploration
Shideh Rezaeifar · Robert Dadashi · Nino Vieillard · Léonard Hussenot · Olivier Bachem · Olivier Pietquin · Matthieu Geist

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Offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims at learning an optimal control from a fixed dataset, without interactions with the system. An agent in this setting should avoid selecting actions whose consequences cannot be predicted from the data. This is the converse of exploration in RL, which favors such actions. We thus take inspiration from the literature on bonus-based exploration to design a new offline RL agent. The core idea is to subtract a prediction-based exploration bonus from the reward, instead of adding it for exploration. This allows the policy to stay close to the support of the dataset. We connect this approach to a more common regularization of the learned policy towards the data. Instantiated with a bonus based on the prediction error of a variational autoencoder, we show that our agent is competitive with the state of the art on a set of continuous control locomotion and manipulation tasks.

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Shideh Rezaeifar (University of Geneva)
Robert Dadashi (Google Research)
Nino Vieillard (Google Brain)
Léonard Hussenot (Google Research, Brain Team)
Olivier Bachem (Google Brain)
Olivier Pietquin (GOOGLE BRAIN)
Matthieu Geist (Google)

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