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Compatible natural gradient policy search

Pajarinen, Joni ; Thai, Hong Linh ; Akrour, Riad ; Peters, Jan ; Neumann, Gerhard (2022)
Compatible natural gradient policy search.
In: Machine Learning, 2022, 108 (8-9)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00020531
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Item Type: Article
Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: Compatible natural gradient policy search
Language: English
Date: 2022
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Year of primary publication: 2022
Publisher: Springer
Journal or Publication Title: Machine Learning
Volume of the journal: 108
Issue Number: 8-9
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00020531
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Origin: Secondary publication service
Abstract:

Trust-region methods have yielded state-of-the-art results in policy search. A common approach is to use KL-divergence to bound the region of trust resulting in a natural gradient policy update. We show that the natural gradient and trust region optimization are equivalent if we use the natural parameterization of a standard exponential policy distribution in combination with compatible value function approximation. Moreover, we show that standard natural gradient updates may reduce the entropy of the policy according to a wrong schedule leading to premature convergence. To control entropy reduction we introduce a new policy search method called compatible policy search (COPOS) which bounds entropy loss. The experimental results show that COPOS yields state-of-the-art results in challenging continuous control tasks and in discrete partially observable tasks.

Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-205319
Classification DDC: 000 Generalities, computers, information > 004 Computer science
600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 600 Technology
Divisions: 20 Department of Computer Science > Intelligent Autonomous Systems
TU-Projects: EC/H2020|640554|SKILLS4ROBOTS
Date Deposited: 10 Feb 2022 13:10
Last Modified: 24 Mar 2023 07:30
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/20531
PPN: 506259315
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