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A framework for reinforcement learning with autocorrelated actions

10 Sep 2020arXiv:2009.04777archive 2025-07-28

Marcin Szulc, Jakub Łyskawa, Paweł Wawrzyński

The subject of this paper is reinforcement learning. Policies are considered here that produce actions based on states and random elements autocorrelated in subsequent time instants. Consequently, an agent learns from experiments that are distributed over time and potentially give better clues to policy improvement. Also, physical implementation of such policies, e.g. in robotics, is less problematic, as it avoids making robots shake. This is in opposition to most RL algorithms which add white noise to control causing unwanted shaking of the robots. An algorithm is introduced here that approximately optimizes the aforementioned policy. Its efficiency is verified for four simulated learning control problems (Ant, HalfCheetah, Hopper, and Walker2D) against three other methods (PPO, SAC, ACER). The algorithm outperforms others in three of these problems.

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Reinforcement LearningReinforcement Learning (RL)reinforcement-learning

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