Title
Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning through Policy Transfer
Abstract
Transfer Learning (TL) has shown great potential to accelerate Reinforcement Learning (RL) by leveraging prior knowledge from past learned policies of relevant tasks. Existing TL approaches either explicitly computes the similarity between tasks or select appropriate source policies to provide guided explorations for the target task. However, how to directly optimize the target policy by alternatively utilizing knowledge from appropriate source policies without explicitly measuring the similarity is currently missing. In this paper, we propose a novel Policy Transfer Framework (PTF) by taking advantage of this idea. PTF learns when and which source policy is the best to reuse for the target policy and when to terminate it by modeling multi-policy transfer as the option learning problem. PTF can be easily combined with existing deep RL approaches. Experimental results show it significantly accelerates the learning process and outperforms state-of-the-art policy transfer methods in both discrete and continuous action spaces.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.5555/3398761.3399072
AAMAS '19: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Auckland New Zealand May, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-7518-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tianpei Yang1136.43
Jianye Hao218955.78
Zhaopeng Meng37915.68
Zongzhang Zhang43610.71
Yujing Hu5212.51
yingfeng chen66913.64
Changjie Fan75721.37
Weixun Wang815.75
Zhaodong Wang9141.66
Jiajie Peng1013217.70