Robust Policy Optimization via Adversarial Importance Sampling
Amine Andam, Jamal Bentahar, Mustapha Hedabou
原文摘要
Significant progress has been made in safeguarding Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) policies against input perturbations. Developing robust DRL involves three main stages: algorithm design, implementation, and evaluation. In this work, we identify and address a key limitation at each stage. First, we introduce Adversarial Importance Sampling (Advis), a method that estimates and optimizes worst-case returns directly from trajectories already collected during standard training. Advis satisfies three desirable criteria that prior work does not jointly achieve: it requires no additional environment interactions, no auxiliary networks, and captures long-term robustness. Second, we introduce advrl, a modular PyTorch library that provides clean, single-file implementations of existing robustness methods and adversarial attacks, enabling rapid prototyping and reproducible evaluations. Third, we revisit evaluation under learned adversaries and show that optimal adversarial hyperparameters do not transfer across agents, which can lead to an overestimation of robustness when using a limited set of attacker configurations. Accordingly, we evaluate policies against a large and diverse set of attackers, using 6 to 14 times more configurations than prior work. Finally, experiments on continuous control environments show that Advis achieves stronger worst-case performance and greater training efficiency than existing baselines.
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