Lever: Inference-Time Policy Reuse under Support Constraints
Reinforcement learning (RL) policies are typically trained for fixed objectives, making reuse difficult when task requirements change. We study inference-time policy reuse: given a library of pre-trained policies and a new composite objective, can a high-quality policy be constructed entirely offline, without additional environment interaction? We introduce lever (Leveraging Efficient Vector Embeddings for Reusable policies), an end-to-end framework that retrieves relevant policies, evaluates them using behavioral embeddings, and composes new policies via offline Q-value composition. We focus on the support-limited regime, where no value propagation is possible, and show that the effectiveness of reuse depends critically on the coverage of available transitions. To balance performance and computational cost, lever proposes composition strategies that control the exploration of candidate policies. Experiments in deterministic GridWorld environments show that inference-time composition can match, and in some cases exceed, training-from-scratch performance while providing substantial speedups. At the same time, performance degrades when long-horizon dependencies require value propagation, highlighting a fundamental limitation of offline reuse.
Code (0)
등록된 구현이 없습니다.
Tasks
Reinforcement LearningSimilar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Context-Aware Policy Reuse
Transfer learning can greatly speed up reinforcement learning for a new task by leveraging policies of relevant tasks. Existing works of policy reuse either focus on only selecting a single best source policy for trans…
Reinforcement LearningTransfer LearningReparameterization Proximal Policy Optimization
By leveraging differentiable dynamics, Reparameterization Policy Gradient (RPG) achieves high sample efficiency. However, current approaches are hindered by two critical limitations: the under-utilization of computationa…
Variance Reduction based Partial Trajectory Reuse to Accelerate Policy Gradient Optimization
Built on our previous study on green simulation assisted policy gradient (GS-PG) focusing on trajectory-based reuse, in this paper, we consider infinite-horizon Markov Decision Processes and create a new importance sampl…
Decision MakingSparse ActionGen: Accelerating Diffusion Policy with Real-time Pruning
Diffusion Policy has dominated action generation due to its strong capabilities for modeling multi-modal action distributions, but its multi-step denoising processes make it impractical for real-time visuomotor control. …
Lifetime policy reuse and the importance of task capacity
A long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence is lifelong reinforcement learning, where learners are given many tasks in sequence and must transfer knowledge between tasks while avoiding catastrophic forgetting. P…
reinforcement-learningReinforcement Learning