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Uncertainty-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning with Diversified Q-Ensemble

NeurIPS 2021 · Reinforcement learning › Offline RL · approach: Pessimism and uncertainty in offline RL · 48 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Use clipped Q-learning with an N-network ensemble instead of the standard two criticsSAC · D4RL MuJoCo Gym tasksnormalized average return: 84.5 vs 16.2 averageHelped
Add ensemble gradient diversification to clipped ensemble actor-criticSAC-N · D4RL MuJoCo Gym averagenormalized average return: 84.5 -> 85.2Helped
Add ensemble gradient diversification to clipped ensemble actor-criticSAC-N · D4RL Adroit pen-humannormalized average return: 9.5±1.1 -> 52.1±8.6Helped
Increase CQL ensemble size from N=2 to N=5 (ablation)CQL · halfcheetah-mediumnormalized average return: 46.9±0.4 -> 47.1±0.3Helped
Increase CQL ensemble size from N=2 to N=100 (ablation)CQL · halfcheetah-mediumnormalized average return: 46.9±0.4 -> 43.7±0.2Hurt
Vary CQL ensemble size from N=2 to N=5, 10, 50, or 100 (ablation)CQL · hopper-mediumnormalized average return: 61.9±6.4; 61.6±6.0; 60.1±4.8; 54.3±2.0; 43.7±0.8Hurt
Vary CQL ensemble size from N=2 to N=5, 10, 50, or 100 (ablation)CQL · walker2d-mediumnormalized average return: 79.5±3.2; 80.8±4.9; 70.9±0.9; 69.4±0.0; 71.3±3.8Mixed
Add gradient diversification to CQL with eta=0.5, 1.0, or 5.0 (ablation)CQL · halfcheetah-mediumnormalized average return: 46.9±0.4; 46.5±0.4; 47.2±0.1; 47.4±0.5No clear effect
Add gradient diversification to CQL with eta=0.5, 1.0, or 5.0 (ablation)CQL · hopper-mediumnormalized average return: 61.9±6.4 -> 65.8±11.2; 69.2±8.8; 60.9±3.2Helped
Add gradient diversification to CQL with eta=0.5, 1.0, or 5.0 (ablation)CQL · walker2d-mediumnormalized average return: 79.5±3.2 -> 82.2±0.6; 80.5±3.1; 82.1±1.2Mixed
Replace gradient diversification with direct Q-estimate variance regularization at c=50 (ablation)SAC-N · walker2d-expertreturn: 5236 vs 511Hurt
Replace gradient diversification with direct Q-estimate variance regularization at c=100 or c=200 (ablation)SAC-N · walker2d-expertreturn: 5236 vs 20; 368Hurt

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