オンライン模倣学習における高速改善の理論的説明
Explaining Fast Improvement in Online Imitation Learning
オンライン模倣学習が既存理論より速く改善する現象を、政策クラスのバイアスを考慮した収束解析で説明した研究。
著者: Xinyan Yan, Byron Boots, Ching-An Cheng
分類: cs.LG, cs.RO, stat.ML
原文アブストラクト
Online imitation learning (IL) is an algorithmic framework that leverages interactions with expert policies for efficient policy optimization. Here policies are optimized by performing online learning on a sequence of loss functions that encourage the learner to mimic expert actions, and if the online learning has no regret, the agent can provably learn an expert-like policy. Online IL has demonstrated empirical successes in many applications and interestingly, its policy improvement speed observed in practice is usually much faster than existing theory suggests. In this work, we provide an explanation of this phenomenon. Let $\xi$ denote the policy class bias and assume the online IL loss functions are convex, smooth, and non-negative. We prove that, after $N$ rounds of online IL with stochastic feedback, the policy improves in $\tilde{O}(1/N + \sqrt{\xi/N})$ in both expectation and high probability. In other words, we show that adopting a sufficiently expressive policy class in online IL has two benefits: both the policy improvement speed increases and the performance bias decreases.
