CDM1619 / DIPO

Policy Representation via Diffusion Probability Model for Reinforcement Learning

Policy Representation via Diffusion Probability Model for Reinforcement Learning
Anonymous

Abstract: Popular reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms tend to produce a unimodal policy distribution, which weakens the expressiveness of complicated policy and decays the ability of exploration. The diffusion probability model is powerful to learn complicated multimodal distributions, which has shown promising and potential applications to RL. In this paper, we formally build a theoretical foundation of policy representation via the diffusion probability model and provide practical implementations of diffusion policy for online model-free RL. Concretely, we character diffusion policy as a stochastic process, which is a new approach to representing a policy. Then we present a convergence guarantee for diffusion policy, which provides a theory to understand the multimodality of diffusion policy. Furthermore, we propose the DIPO which is an implementation for model-free online RL with DIffusion POlicy. To the best of our knowledge, DIPO is the first algorithm to solve model-free online RL problems with the diffusion model. Finally, extensive empirical results show the effectiveness and superiority of DIPO on the standard continuous control MoJoCo benchmark.

Experiments

Requirements

Installations of PyTorch and MuJoCo are needed. A suitable conda environment named DIPO can be created and activated with:

conda create DIPO
conda activate DIPO

To get started, install the additionally required python packages into you environment.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Running

Running experiments based our code could be quite easy, so below we use Hopper-v3 task as an example.

python main.py --env_name Hopper-v3 --num_steps 1000000 --n_timesteps 100 --cuda 0 --seed 0

Hyperparameters

Hyperparameters for DIPO have been shown as follow for easily reproducing our reported results.

Hyper-parameters for algorithms

Hyperparameter	DIPO	SAC	TD3	PPO
No. of hidden layers	2	2	2	2
No. of hidden nodes	256	256	256	256
Activation	mish	relu	relu	tanh
Batch size	256	256	256	256
Discount for reward $\gamma$	0.99	0.99	0.99	0.99
Target smoothing coefficient $\tau$	0.005	0.005	0.005	0.005
Learning rate for actor	$3 × 10^{-4}$	$3 × 10^{-4}$	$3 × 10^{-4}$	$7 × 10^{-4}$
Learning rate for actor	$3 × 10^{-4}$	$3 × 10^{-4}$	$3 × 10^{-4}$	$7 × 10^{-4}$
Actor Critic grad norm	2	N/A	N/A	0.5
Memeroy size	$1 × 10^6$	$1 × 10^6$	$1 × 10^6$	$1 × 10^6$
Entropy coefficient	N/A	0.2	N/A	0.01
Value loss coefficient	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.5
Exploration noise	N/A	N/A	$\mathcal{N}$(0, 0.1)	N/A
Policy noise	N/A	N/A	$\mathcal{N}$(0, 0.2)	N/A
Noise clip	N/A	N/A	0.5	N/A
Use gae	N/A	N/A	N/A	True

Hyper-parameters for MuJoCo.(DIPO)

Hyperparameter	Hopper-v3	Walker2d-v3	Ant-v3	HalfCheetah-v3	Humanoid-v3
Learning rate for action	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
Actor Critic grad norm	1	2	0.8	2	2
Action grad norm ratio	0.3	0.08	0.1	0.08	0.1
Action gradient steps	20	20	20	40	20
Diffusion inference timesteps	100	100	100	100	100
Diffusion beta schedule	cosine	cosine	cosine	cosine	cosine
Update actor target every	1	1	1	2	1