Regularization in reinforcement learning

A Farahmand - 2011 - era.library.ualberta.ca
… We also address the problem of automatic parameter-tuning of reinforcement learn- ing/planning
algorithms and introduce a complexity regularization-based model selection … I will not try to …

Leverage the average: an analysis of kl regularization in reinforcement learning

N Vieillard, T Kozuno, B Scherrer… - Advances in …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
… (RL) algorithms making use of KullbackLeibler (KL) regularization as a core component …
about why KL regularization helps, so far. We study KL regularization within an approximate …

Behavior regularized offline reinforcement learning

Y Wu, G Tucker, O Nachum - arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.11361, 2019 - arxiv.org
… We focus on behavior regularized approaches applied to … We introduce behavior regularized
actor critic (BRAC), a general … variants of the behavior regularized approach can yield good …

Distributional robustness and regularization in reinforcement learning

E Derman, S Mannor - arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.02894, 2020 - arxiv.org
… between robustness and regularization in classification and … why regularization generalizes
well in statistical learning. … , existing regularization methods in reinforcement learning (…

Image augmentation is all you need: Regularizing deep reinforcement learning from pixels

I Kostrikov, D Yarats, R Fergus - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.13649, 2020 - arxiv.org
… objectives, eg weight regularization, noise injection [28], or … observations, as well as
regularizing the Q-function learned by … two simple mechanisms for regularizing the value function …

Improving generalization in reinforcement learning with mixture regularization

K Wang, B Kang, J Shao… - Advances in Neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
… 3.2 Mixture regularization Inspired by the success of mixup in supervised learning [32], we
introduce mixture regularization (mixreg) to increase the diversity of limited training data and …

Generalization and regularization in dqn

J Farebrother, MC Machado, M Bowling - arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00123, 2018 - arxiv.org
… Despite regularization being largely underutilized in deep reinforcement learning, we show
… deep neural networks to improve robustness and adaptability, we apply regularization

A connection between one-step RL and critic regularization in reinforcement learning

B Eysenbach, M Geist, S Levine… - … Machine Learning, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
regularized using the same tools as in supervised learning (eg, weight decay, dropout),
we will use “regularization… Such regularization methods include policy regularization (penalizing …

Control regularization for reduced variance reinforcement learning

R Cheng, A Verma, G Orosz… - … Machine Learning, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
… In this work, we propose a policy gradient algorithm, CORERL (COntrol REgularized
Reinforcement Learning), that utilizes a functional regularizer around a, typically suboptimal, control …

Image augmentation is all you need: Regularizing deep reinforcement learning from pixels

D Yarats, I Kostrikov, R Fergus - … conference on learning …, 2021 - openreview.net
We propose a simple data augmentation technique that can be applied to standard model-free
reinforcement learning algorithms, enabling robust learning directly from pixels without …