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Convergent Policy Optimization for Safe Reinforcement Learning

26 Oct 2019NeurIPS 2019 12arXiv:1910.12156archive 2025-07-28

Ming Yu, Zhuoran Yang, Mladen Kolar, Zhaoran Wang

We study the safe reinforcement learning problem with nonlinear function approximation, where policy optimization is formulated as a constrained optimization problem with both the objective and the constraint being nonconvex functions. For such a problem, we construct a sequence of surrogate convex constrained optimization problems by replacing the nonconvex functions locally with convex quadratic functions obtained from policy gradient estimators. We prove that the solutions to these surrogate problems converge to a stationary point of the original nonconvex problem. Furthermore, to extend our theoretical results, we apply our algorithm to examples of optimal control and multi-agent reinforcement learning with safety constraints.

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