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why agent failed to get accelerated after training?

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Hi,
I trained an pre-trained agent in the same environment. I expect that, model should converge faster but it did not happen.
first pic: first training
second pic: with trained agent
it seems agent do the same training once again. My question is why the second one not faster?
agent setting:
agentOpts=rlDQNAgentOptions(...
'UseDoubleDQN',true,...
'MiniBatchSize', 64, ...
'SaveExperienceBufferWithAgent',true);
'rlDQNAgentOptions' requires Reinforcement Learning Toolbox.
agentOpts.EpsilonGreedyExploration.EpsilonDecay=1e-3;
agentOpts.EpsilonGreedyExploration.Epsilon=0.9;
agentOpts.CriticOptimizerOptions.LearnRate=0.01;
agentOpts.CriticOptimizerOptions.GradientThreshold=1;
Train_Old_Model = true; % Set to true, to use pre-trained
agentOpts.ResetExperienceBufferBeforeTraining = not(Train_Old_Model);
if Train_Old_Model
% Load experiences from pre-trained agent
load("XYAgent.mat",'agent');
else
%new DQN Agent
agent = rlDQNAgent(critic,agentOpts);
end
traning setting
maxEpisodes = 1300;
maxStepsPerEpisode = 20;
trainOpts = rlTrainingOptions(...
MaxEpisodes=maxEpisodes, ...
MaxStepsPerEpisode=maxStepsPerEpisode, ...
Verbose=false, ...
ScoreAveragingWindowLength=100,...
Plots="training-progress",...
StopTrainingCriteria="EpisodeCount",...
StopTrainingValue=maxEpisodes);
plot(env)
%train
doTraining = true;
if doTraining
% Train the agent.
trainingStats = train(agent,env,trainOpts);
save("XYAgent.mat","agent")
else
% Load the pretrained agent for the example.
load("XYAgent.mat","agent")
end
Thank you!

Accepted Answer

Piyush Dubey
Piyush Dubey on 2 Jun 2023
Hi Kun,
There are various reasons because of which an agent may take longer to converge. Various ways by which a model can be saved, and the training can be resumed can be found in the documentation below:
The reasons why a pre-trained agent can take longer in the same environment are:
  1. Overfitting a specific set of data
  2. Different objectives of the agent
  3. Architectural difference of the neural networks used in the agent
  4. Exploration vs Exploitation tradeoff
  5. Incorrectly initialized hyperparameters
Above pointers can be used for diagnosing reasons of a slower convergence of the agent.
Hope this helps.

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