Unsupervised Behavior Extraction via Random Intent Priors
Hao Hu Yiqin Yang Jianing Ye Ziqing Mai Chongjie Zhang
Reward-free data is abundant and contains rich prior knowledge of human
behaviors, but it is not well exploited by offline reinforcement learning (RL)
algorithms. In this paper, we propose UBER, an unsupervised approach to extract
useful behaviors from offline reward-free datasets via diversified rewards.
UBER assigns different pseudo-rewards sampled from a given prior distribution
to different agents to extract a diverse set of behaviors, and reuse them as
candidate policies to facilitate the learning of new tasks. Perhaps
surprisingly, we show that rewards generated from random neural networks are
sufficient to extract diverse and useful behaviors, some even close to expert
ones. We provide both empirical and theoretical evidence to justify the use of
random priors for the reward function. Experiments on multiple benchmarks
showcase UBER's ability to learn effective and diverse behavior sets that
enhance sample efficiency for online RL, outperforming existing baselines. By
reducing reliance on human supervision, UBER broadens the applicability of RL
to real-world scenarios with abundant reward-free data.