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Safe Policy Improvement with Baseline Bootstrapping in Factored Environments

AAAI 2019 · Reinforcement learning › Policy gradient and actor-critic · approach: Safety layers and shielding · 22 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
use factored representation in Pi_b-SPIBBPi_b-SPIBB · Taxi, softmax baseline, |D|=50mean return: -24.36 -> -5.94Helped
use factored representation in Pi_<=b-SPIBBPi_<=b-SPIBB · Taxi, softmax baseline, |D|=50mean return: -16.6 -> -1.08Helped
use factored representation in Pi_b-SPIBBPi_b-SPIBB · Taxi, softmax baseline, |D|=501%-quantile return: -26.54 -> -9.72Helped
use factored representation in Pi_<=b-SPIBBPi_<=b-SPIBB · Taxi, softmax baseline, |D|=501%-quantile return: -19.7 -> -4.32Helped
add safety bootstrapping (SPIBB) to basic factored RLFactored RL · Taxi, softmax baseline, |D|=50mean return: 5.56 -> -1.08Hurt
relax Pi_b to Pi_<=b constraint (flat) (ablation)Pi_b-SPIBB · Taxi, softmax baseline, |D|=50mean return: -24.36 -> -16.6Helped
factored representation with deterministic behavior policyPi_b-SPIBB · SysAdmin, deterministic baselinepolicy improvement over baselineHelped

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