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Trust the Model When It Is Confident: Masked Model-based Actor-Critic

NeurIPS 2020 · Reinforcement learning › Policy gradient and actor-critic · approach: Stabilizing deep actor-critic · 21 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
use masked model rollouts instead of unmasked rolloutsM2AC · MuJoCo continuous controlreturn with long rolloutsHelped
masking rate w close to 0.9 in long rollouts (ablation)M2AC · HalfCheetah-Noisy2returnHurt
penalty coefficient alpha 0.001 vs 0.01 or 0 (ablation)M2AC · HalfCheetah-Noisy2returnHelped
non-stop rollout mode instead of hard-stop (ablation)M2AC · HalfCheetah-Noisy2returnHelped
One-vs-Rest uncertainty instead of One-vs-All or negative likelihood (ablation)M2AC · HalfCheetah-Noisy2returnHelped
M2AC vs MBPO with H_max=1M2AC · MuJoCo continuous controlreturnNo clear effect
M2AC vs MBPO in noisy Walker2dM2AC · Walker2d noisyreturnHelped

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