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18 results for HRL

Paper shows intrinsic motivation boosts exploration efficiency in HRL.

problem Efficient exploration and subgoal discovery in model-free HRL.
method Unsupervised learning over agent's experiences for subgoal discovery.
result Intrinsic motivation learning improves exploration efficiency.

Hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) has recently shown promising advances on speeding up learning, improving the exploration, and discovering intertask transferable skills. Most recent works focus on HRL with two levels, i.e., a master policy manipulates subpolicies, which in turn manipulate primitive actions. Ho…

2018-11-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Proves efficient learning of hierarchical structure in meta-reinforcement learning.

problem Lack of provable guarantees for learning hierarchical structures in reinforcement learning.
method Analyzed HRL in meta-RL setting with tabular transition dynamics, providing diversity conditions and regret bounds.
result Sample-efficient recovery of natural hierarchical structure with provable guarantees.

Hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL) is a promising approach to extend traditional reinforcement learning (RL) methods to solve more complex tasks. Yet, the majority of current HRL methods require careful task-specific design and on-policy training, making them difficult to apply in real-world scenarios. In this p…

2018-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper introduces an adjacency constraint to improve goal-conditioned HRL.

problem Training inefficiency in goal-conditioned HRL due to large action space.
method Restricting the high-level action space to a k-step adjacent region of the current state.
result The adjacency constraint preserves optimal hierarchical policies and improves HRL performance.

Learning an optimal policy from a multi-modal reward function is a challenging problem in reinforcement learning (RL). Hierarchical RL (HRL) tackles this problem by learning a hierarchical policy, where multiple option policies are in charge of different strategies corresponding to modes of a reward function and a gati…

2017-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce agents that use object-oriented reasoning to consider alternate states of the world in order to more quickly find solutions to problems. Specifically, a hierarchical controller directs a low-level agent to behave as if objects in the scene were added, deleted, or modified. The actions taken by the controll…

2019-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved cooperation between levels boosts reinforcement learning performance.

problem Training multi-level policies in hierarchical reinforcement learning.
method Modeling policy optimization as a multi-agent process and inducing cooperation between sub-policies.
result Inducing cooperation between sub-policies leads to stronger and more sample-efficient policies.

We prove a lower bound for feature dimension in linear MDPs and propose a novel dynamics aggregation framework.

problem The limitation of feature dimension in linear MDPs and the need for efficient hierarchical reinforcement learning.
method We propose a novel dynamics aggregation framework based on structural dynamics and design a provably efficient hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm.
result Our algorithm achieves a regret of ildeO(dψ3/2H3/2NT) ilde{O} ( d_ψ^{3/2} H^{3/2}\sqrt{ N T} ) and meets the condition dψ3Nd3d_ψ^3 N \ll d^{3} in most real-world environments.

MacroHFT uses memory and context-aware reinforcement learning to improve HFT performance.

problem Overfitting and biased decisions in HFT due to rapid market changes.
method Memory Augmented Context-aware Reinforcement Learning (MacroHFT) that trains multiple sub-agents and a hyper-agent.
result MacroHFT achieves state-of-the-art performance on minute-level trading tasks.