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SEAR: Sample Efficient Action Chunking Reinforcement Learning
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Action chunking improves exploration and accelerates value propagation in long-horizon reinforcement learning, but naively applying off-policy methods to the temporally extended action space at reduced decision frequency offsets these gains, leading to poor sample efficiency. Existing online action chunking methods address these issues through computationally expensive critic-only approaches or by relying on offline data. We introduce SEAR, a sample-efficient off-policy algorithm that enables online reinforcement learning with action chunks by addressing both challenges. To handle high-dimensional action sequences, SEAR employs a causal transformer critic trained with multi-horizon targets that provide a training signal for every prefix of an action chunk, effectively increasing the useful gradients per sample. To restore decision frequency, SEAR operates with a receding horizon and random replanning, ensuring uniform state coverage while combining the fast value propagation of large chunks with the reactivity of small ones. SEAR outperforms state-of-the-art online reinforcement learning methods including SimbaV2 on challenging Metaworld manipulation tasks. Beyond online RL, applying SEAR to the offline-to-online method QC improves its performance on the demanding OGBench cube-triple tasks.
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SEAR: Sample Efficient Action Chunking Reinforcement Learning
Action chunking improves exploration and accelerates value propagation in long-horizon reinforcement learning, but naively applying off-policy methods to the temporally extended action space at reduced decision frequency offsets these gains, leading to poor sample efficiency. Existing online action chunking methods address these issues through computationally expensive critic-only approaches or by relying on offline data. We introduce SEAR, a sample-efficient off-policy algorithm that enables online reinforcement learning with action chunks by addressing both challenges. To handle high-dimensional action sequences, SEAR employs a causal transformer critic trained with multi-horizon targets that provide a training signal for every prefix of an action chunk, effectively increasing the useful gradients per sample. To restore decision frequency, SEAR operates with a receding horizon and random replanning, ensuring uniform state coverage while combining the fast value propagation of large chunks with the reactivity of small ones. SEAR outperforms state-of-the-art online reinforcement learning methods including SimbaV2 on challenging Metaworld manipulation tasks. Beyond online RL, applying SEAR to the offline-to-online method QC improves its performance on the demanding OGBench cube-triple tasks.
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