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Poster

Adaptive $Q$-Aid for Conditional Supervised Learning in Offline Reinforcement Learning

Jeonghye Kim · Suyoung Lee · Woojun Kim · Youngchul Sung

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Fri 13 Dec 11 a.m. PST — 2 p.m. PST

Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) has progressed with return-conditioned supervised learning (RCSL), but its lack of stitching ability remains a limitation. We introduce $Q$-Aided Conditional Supervised Learning (QCS), which effectively combines the stability of RCSL with the stitching capability of $Q$-functions. By analyzing $Q$-function over-generalization, which impairs stable stitching, QCS adaptively integrates $Q$-aid into RCSL's loss function based on trajectory return. Empirical results show that QCS significantly outperforms RCSL and value-based methods, consistently achieving or exceeding the highest trajectory returns across diverse offline RL benchmarks. QCS represents a breakthrough in offline RL, pushing the limits of what can be achieved and fostering further innovations.

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