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论文arXiv 2610.1440019 天前

Sparse-TD-JEPA:用稀疏潜在任务表示改进零样本强化学习 ​

原文链接:Sparse-TD-JEPA: Improving Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning With Sparse Latent Task Representations(arXiv 2610.14400 · 发布日期:2026-10-09)

Sparse-TD-JEPA: Improving Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning With Sparse Latent Task Representations

针对密集任务表示导致奖励弥散的问题,Sparse-TD-JEPA用l1稀疏惩罚改进TD-JEPA,并在DMC与OGBench验证。

核心要点 ​

  • 密集任务编码会使推断奖励在状态空间中弥散,削弱目标相关状态对比。
  • 方法在训练时加入l1稀疏惩罚,将奖励预测结构集中到更小潜在子空间。
  • 该改动无需架构变化,也不修改测试时的闭式线性回归推断流程。
  • 在13个域级比较均优于TD-JEPA,9个域达到既有零样本基线最高均值表现。

验证范围与局限:验证范围为DMC与OGBench中的65个任务,涵盖运动、导航、轨迹拼接、解谜和机器人操作。

英文摘要 (Abstract) ​

Successor-feature-based zero-shot reinforcement learning methods pre-train a task encoder and successor-feature predictor on offline, reward-free data, then recover a policy at test time by solving a closed-form linear regression over a small labeled dataset. We identify an underexplored limitation of this approach: when the task encoder produces dense representations, the inferred reward signal becomes diffuse across the state space, reducing the contrast between goal-relevant states and the background and providing a weaker signal for the policy to follow. We address this limitation by introducing an l1 sparsity penalty that concentrates reward-predictive structure into a smaller effective subspace of the task encoder's latent space. The penalty is applied only during training and requires no architectural change or modification to the closed-form inference procedure. We instantiate this approach as Sparse-TD-JEPA, a single-line of code addition based on Temporal-Difference Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (TD-JEPA) that significantly improved its performance in zero-shot reinforcement learning. We evaluate Sparse-TD-JEPA on 65 tasks across the DeepMind Control (DMC) Suite and OGBench, covering locomotion, navigation, trajectory stitching, puzzle solving, and robotic manipulation. Sparse-TD-JEPA improves over TD-JEPA in all 13 domain-level comparisons. On DMC, it increases the average return from 661 +- 6 to 714 +- 3. On OGBench, it increases the average success rate from 38.0 +- 0.8 to 48.4 +- 2.3, with improvements of 13.4-18.0 percentage points on the evaluated antmaze navigation and stitching domains. Overall, Sparse-TD-JEPA achieves the highest mean performance among established zero-shot baselines in nine of the 13 domains. Analysis further shows that sparsity produces a sharper and more task-informative inferred reward landscape.

作者:Duaa Nakshbandi, Zhiyu An, Wan Du

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  1. arXiv 2610.14400:Sparse-TD-JEPA: Improving Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning With Sparse Latent Task Representations访问 2026-10-21