Rethinking Optimal Transport in Offline Reinforcement Learning
Arip Asadulaev, Rostislav Korst, Aleksandr Korotin, Vage Egiazarian, Andrey Filchenkov, Evgeny Burnaev
Abstract
We propose a novel algorithm for offline reinforcement learning using optimal transport. Typically, in offline reinforcement learning, the data is provided by various experts and some of them can be sub-optimal. To extract an efficient policy, it is necessary to stitch the best behaviors from the dataset. To address this problem, we rethink offline reinforcement learning as an optimal transportation problem. And based on this, we present an algorithm that aims to find a policy that maps states to a partial distribution of the best expert actions for each given state. We evaluate the performance of our algorithm on continuous control problems from the D4RL suite and demonstrate improvements over existing methods.
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