Sample-Efficient Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutional Strategy via Simulated Rollouts in Neural Networks

Type of publication:  Artikel in einem Konferenzbericht
Publikationsstatus: Akzeptiert
Jahr: 2020
Verlag: Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (ASPAI)
Ort: Berlin, Germany
URL: https://cps.unileoben.ac.at/wp...
DOI: https://cps.unileoben.ac.at/wp/ASPAI2020Xue.pdf
Abriss: Gradient-free reinforcement learning algorithms often fail to scale to high dimensions and require a large number of rollouts. In this paper, we propose learning a predictor model that allows simulated rollouts in a rank-based black-box optimizer Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutional Strategy (CMA-ES) to achieve higher sample-efficiency. We validated the performance of our new approach on different benchmark functions where our algorithm shows a faster convergence compared to the standard CMA-ES. As a next step, we will evaluate our new algorithm in a robot cup flipping task.
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Autoren: Xue, Honghu
Böttger, Sven
Rottmann, Nils
Pandya, Harit
Bruder, Ralf
Neumann, Gerdhard
Rueckert, Elmar
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