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Program Synthesis Guided Reinforcement Learning for Partially Observed Environments

NeurIPS 2021 · Reinforcement learning › Visual and representation RL · approach: Curriculum and environment design · 3 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Use MPPS program guidance instead of end-to-end policyRL agent · 2D-craftaverage reward: 0.22 (0.01) -> 0.70 (0.03)Helped
Use MPPS program guidance instead of end-to-end policyRL agent · Box-worldaverage reward: 0.85 (0.02) -> 0.90 (0.00)Helped
Use MPPS program guidance instead of end-to-end policyRL agent · Ant-craftaverage reward: 0.12 (0.03) -> 0.40 (0.01)Helped
Use MPPS instead of end-to-end policyRL agent · 2D-craftaverage finish step: 82.3 (1.3) -> 56.4 (2.0)Helped
Replace synthesized programs with handcrafted oracle programsMPPS · 2D-craftaverage reward: 0.70 (0.03) -> 0.76 (0.02)No clear effect
Replace synthesized programs with handcrafted oracle programsMPPS · Box-worldaverage finish step: 38.6 (0.4) -> 30.8 (0.5)Mixed
Remove learned hallucinator; naive random exploration before synthesis (ablation)MPPS · 2D-craftaverage reward: 0.70 (0.03) -> 0.024Hurt
Replace learned hallucinator with optimistic synthesizer or random hallucinator (ablation)MPPS · 2D-craftaverage rewardHurt
Increase number of hallucinator samples m (ablation)MPPS · Box-worldmean rewardNo clear effect
Increase number of hallucinator samples m (ablation)MPPS · Box-worldvariance of rewardHelped
Make environment non-deterministic (20% action failure)MPPS · 2D-craftaverage reward: 0.70 (0.03) -> 0.47 (0.03)Hurt
Make environment non-deterministic (20% action failure)MPPS · 2D-craftaverage finish step: 56.4 (2.0) -> 73.1 (1.2)Hurt

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