Summary of Diffusion Actor-critic: Formulating Constrained Policy Iteration As Diffusion Noise Regression For Offline Reinforcement Learning, by Linjiajie Fang et al.
Diffusion Actor-Critic: Formulating Constrained Policy Iteration as Diffusion Noise Regression for Offline Reinforcement Learning
by Linjiajie Fang, Ruoxue Liu, Jing Zhang, Wenjia Wang, Bing-Yi Jing
First submitted to arxiv on: 31 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel approach to offline reinforcement learning called Diffusion Actor-Critic (DAC), which addresses the problem of overestimation in value functions by constraining the target policy with a KL constraint. The DAC method represents the behavior policy as an expressive diffusion model and formulates the KL constraint as a diffusion noise regression problem, enabling direct representation of target policies as diffusion models. The approach combines actor-critic learning with soft Q-guidance from the Q-gradient to prevent learned policies from taking out-of-distribution actions. Evaluation on D4RL benchmarks shows that DAC outperforms state-of-the-art methods in nearly all environments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a new way to learn how machines make decisions without needing real-time feedback. It’s called Diffusion Actor-Critic, or DAC for short. The idea is to help the machine choose actions that are more likely to happen in real life, rather than just making random choices. To do this, DAC uses a special type of model called a diffusion model, which helps keep the machine from getting too crazy and trying things that won’t work. This approach works really well, and it even beats other methods at doing tasks like playing video games or controlling robots. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Diffusion model » Regression » Reinforcement learning
