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When to Trust Your Simulator: Dynamics-Aware Hybrid Offline-and-Online Reinforcement Learning

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  • Haebom

Author

Haoyi Niu, Shubham Sharma, Yiwen Qiu, Ming Li, Guyue Zhou, Jianming Hu, Xianyuan Zhan

Outline

This paper proposes a method that combines imperfect simulators with limited real-world data to address the challenges of learning effective reinforcement learning (RL) policies for complex real-world tasks. The Dynamics-Aware Hybrid Offline-and-Online Reinforcement Learning (H2O) framework adjusts Q-function learning by considering dynamic differences and performs training on a fixed real-world dataset. We demonstrate the superiority of H2O through simulations, real-world tasks, and theoretical analysis, presenting a novel hybrid offline-online RL paradigm.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
Improving the performance of RL policy learning in real-world environments by combining limited real-world data and imperfect simulators.
Bridging the gap between simulation and reality through policy evaluation methods that take dynamic differences into account.
Demonstrated excellent performance in various simulations and real-world tasks.
Contributes to future RL algorithm design by presenting a new hybrid RL paradigm.
Limitations:
The specific performance and limitations of H2O depend on the experiments and analyses presented.
In actual application, performance may vary depending on the degree of incompleteness of the simulator and the amount of actual data.
Beyond comparisons with other RL algorithms, further research is needed on H2O's generalization ability.
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