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Poster
Robust Task Representations for Offline Meta-Reinforcement Learning via Contrastive Learning
Haoqi Yuan · Zongqing Lu

Thu Jul 21 03:00 PM -- 05:00 PM (PDT) @ Hall E #604
in Poster Session 3 »

We study offline meta-reinforcement learning, a practical reinforcement learning paradigm that learns from offline data to adapt to new tasks. The distribution of offline data is determined jointly by the behavior policy and the task. Existing offline meta-reinforcement learning algorithms cannot distinguish these factors, making task representations unstable to the change of behavior policies. To address this problem, we propose a contrastive learning framework for task representations that are robust to the distribution mismatch of behavior policies in training and test. We design a bi-level encoder structure, use mutual information maximization to formalize task representation learning, derive a contrastive learning objective, and introduce several approaches to approximate the true distribution of negative pairs. Experiments on a variety of offline meta-reinforcement learning benchmarks demonstrate the advantages of our method over prior methods, especially on the generalization to out-of-distribution behavior policies.

Keywords: DL: Other Representation Learning · DL: Self-Supervised Learning · RL: Batch/Offline · RL: Deep RL · MISC: Representation Learning · MISC: Transfer, Multitask and Meta-learning

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Haoqi Yuan (Peking University)
Zongqing Lu (Peking University)

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