Multifidelity Reinforcement Learning with Control Variates
In many computational science and engineering applications, the output of a system of interest corresponding to a given input can be queried at different levels of fidelity with different costs. Typically, low-fidelity data is cheap and abundant, while high-fidelity data is expensive and scarce. In this work we study the reinforcement learning (RL) problem in the presence of multiple environments with different levels of fidelity for a given control task. We focus on improving the RL agent's performance with multifidelity data. Specifically, a multifidelity estimator that exploits the cross-correlations between the low- and high-fidelity returns is proposed to reduce the variance in the estimation of the state-action value function. The proposed estimator, which is based on the method of control variates, is used to design a multifidelity Monte Carlo RL (MFMCRL) algorithm that improves the learning of the agent in the high-fidelity environment. The impacts of variance reduction on policy evaluation and policy improvement are theoretically analyzed by using probability bounds. Our theoretical analysis and numerical experiments demonstrate that for a finite budget of high-fidelity data samples, our proposed MFMCRL agent attains superior performance compared with that of a standard RL agent that uses only the high-fidelity environment data for learning the optimal policy.
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