Transformer, originally devised for natural language processing, has also attested significant success in computer vision. Thanks to its super expressive power, researchers are investigating ways to deploy transformers to reinforcement learning (RL) and the transformer-based models have manifested their potential in representative RL benchmarks. In this paper, we collect and dissect recent advances on transforming RL by transformer (transformer-based RL or TRL), in order to explore its development trajectory and future trend. We group existing developments in two categories: architecture enhancement and trajectory optimization, and examine the main applications of TRL in robotic manipulation, text-based games, navigation and autonomous driving. For architecture enhancement, these methods consider how to apply the powerful transformer structure to RL problems under the traditional RL framework, which model agents and environments much more precisely than deep RL methods, but they are still limited by the inherent defects of traditional RL algorithms, such as bootstrapping and "deadly triad". For trajectory optimization, these methods treat RL problems as sequence modeling and train a joint state-action model over entire trajectories under the behavior cloning framework, which are able to extract policies from static datasets and fully use the long-sequence modeling capability of the transformer. Given these advancements, extensions and challenges in TRL are reviewed and proposals about future direction are discussed. We hope that this survey can provide a detailed introduction to TRL and motivate future research in this rapidly developing field.

The past few years have seen rapid progress in combining reinforcement learning (RL) with deep learning. Various breakthroughs ranging from games to robotics have spurred the interest in designing sophisticated RL algorithms and systems. However, the prevailing workflow in RL is to learn tabula rasa, which may incur computational inefficiency. This precludes continuous deployment of RL algorithms and potentially excludes researchers without large-scale computing resources. In many other areas of machine learning, the pretraining paradigm has shown to be effective in acquiring transferable knowledge, which can be utilized for a variety of downstream tasks. Recently, we saw a surge of interest in Pretraining for Deep RL with promising results. However, much of the research has been based on different experimental settings. Due to the nature of RL, pretraining in this field is faced with unique challenges and hence requires new design principles. In this survey, we seek to systematically review existing works in pretraining for deep reinforcement learning, provide a taxonomy of these methods, discuss each sub-field, and bring attention to open problems and future directions.

强化学习（RL）通过与环境相互作用的试验过程解决顺序决策问题。尽管RL在玩复杂的视频游戏方面取得了巨大的成功，但在现实世界中，犯错误总是不希望的。为了提高样本效率并从而降低错误，据信基于模型的增强学习（MBRL）是一个有前途的方向，它建立了环境模型，在该模型中可以进行反复试验，而无需实际成本。在这项调查中，我们对MBRL进行了审查，重点是Deep RL的最新进展。对于非壮观环境，学到的环境模型与真实环境之间始终存在概括性错误。因此，非常重要的是分析环境模型中的政策培训与实际环境中的差异，这反过来又指导了更好的模型学习，模型使用和政策培训的算法设计。此外，我们还讨论了其他形式的RL，包括离线RL，目标条件RL，多代理RL和Meta-RL的最新进展。此外，我们讨论了MBRL在现实世界任务中的适用性和优势。最后，我们通过讨论MBRL未来发展的前景来结束这项调查。我们认为，MBRL在被忽略的现实应用程序中具有巨大的潜力和优势，我们希望这项调查能够吸引更多关于MBRL的研究。

Deep reinforcement learning is poised to revolutionise the field of AI and represents a step towards building autonomous systems with a higher level understanding of the visual world. Currently, deep learning is enabling reinforcement learning to scale to problems that were previously intractable, such as learning to play video games directly from pixels. Deep reinforcement learning algorithms are also applied to robotics, allowing control policies for robots to be learned directly from camera inputs in the real world. In this survey, we begin with an introduction to the general field of reinforcement learning, then progress to the main streams of value-based and policybased methods. Our survey will cover central algorithms in deep reinforcement learning, including the deep Q-network, trust region policy optimisation, and asynchronous advantage actor-critic. In parallel, we highlight the unique advantages of deep neural networks, focusing on visual understanding via reinforcement learning. To conclude, we describe several current areas of research within the field.

With the development of deep representation learning, the domain of reinforcement learning (RL) has become a powerful learning framework now capable of learning complex policies in high dimensional environments. This review summarises deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms and provides a taxonomy of automated driving tasks where (D)RL methods have been employed, while addressing key computational challenges in real world deployment of autonomous driving agents. It also delineates adjacent domains such as behavior cloning, imitation learning, inverse reinforcement learning that are related but are not classical RL algorithms. The role of simulators in training agents, methods to validate, test and robustify existing solutions in RL are discussed.

人类可以利用先前的经验，并从少数示威活动中学习新颖的任务。与旨在通过更好的算法设计来快速适应的离线元强化学习相反，我们研究了建筑归纳偏见对少量学习能力的影响。我们提出了一个基于及时的决策变压器（提示-DT），该变压器利用了变压器体系结构和及时框架的顺序建模能力，以在离线RL中实现少量适应。我们设计了轨迹提示，其中包含少量演示的片段，并编码特定于任务的信息以指导策略生成。我们在五个Mujoco控制基准中进行的实验表明，提示-DT是一个强大的少数学习者，而没有对看不见的目标任务进行任何额外的填充。提示-DT的表现优于其变体和强大的元线RL基线，只有一个轨迹提示符只包含少量时间段。提示-DT也很健壮，可以提示长度更改并可以推广到分布（OOD）环境。

Our situated environment is full of uncertainty and highly dynamic, thus hindering the widespread adoption of machine-led Intelligent Decision-Making (IDM) in real world scenarios. This means IDM should have the capability of continuously learning new skills and efficiently generalizing across wider applications. IDM benefits from any new approaches and theoretical breakthroughs that exhibit Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) breaking the barriers between tasks and applications. Recent research has well-examined neural architecture, Transformer, as a backbone foundation model and its generalization to various tasks, including computer vision, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning. We therefore argue that a foundation decision model (FDM) can be established by formulating various decision-making tasks as a sequence decoding task using the Transformer architecture; this would be a promising solution to advance the applications of IDM in more complex real world tasks. In this paper, we elaborate on how a foundation decision model improves the efficiency and generalization of IDM. We also discuss potential applications of a FDM in multi-agent game AI, production scheduling, and robotics tasks. Finally, through a case study, we demonstrate our realization of the FDM, DigitalBrain (DB1) with 1.2 billion parameters, which achieves human-level performance over 453 tasks, including text generation, images caption, video games playing, robotic control, and traveling salesman problems. As a foundation decision model, DB1 would be a baby step towards more autonomous and efficient real world IDM applications.

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a popular machine learning paradigm where intelligent agents interact with the environment to fulfill a long-term goal. Driven by the resurgence of deep learning, Deep RL (DRL) has witnessed great success over a wide spectrum of complex control tasks. Despite the encouraging results achieved, the deep neural network-based backbone is widely deemed as a black box that impedes practitioners to trust and employ trained agents in realistic scenarios where high security and reliability are essential. To alleviate this issue, a large volume of literature devoted to shedding light on the inner workings of the intelligent agents has been proposed, by constructing intrinsic interpretability or post-hoc explainability. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive review of existing works on eXplainable RL (XRL) and introduce a new taxonomy where prior works are clearly categorized into model-explaining, reward-explaining, state-explaining, and task-explaining methods. We also review and highlight RL methods that conversely leverage human knowledge to promote learning efficiency and performance of agents while this kind of method is often ignored in XRL field. Some challenges and opportunities in XRL are discussed. This survey intends to provide a high-level summarization of XRL and to motivate future research on more effective XRL solutions. Corresponding open source codes are collected and categorized at https://github.com/Plankson/awesome-explainable-reinforcement-learning.

深度强化学习（DRL）和深度多机构的强化学习（MARL）在包括游戏AI，自动驾驶汽车，机器人技术等各种领域取得了巨大的成功。但是，众所周知，DRL和Deep MARL代理的样本效率低下，即使对于相对简单的问题设置，通常也需要数百万个相互作用，从而阻止了在实地场景中的广泛应用和部署。背后的一个瓶颈挑战是众所周知的探索问题，即如何有效地探索环境和收集信息丰富的经验，从而使政策学习受益于最佳研究。在稀疏的奖励，吵闹的干扰，长距离和非平稳的共同学习者的复杂环境中，这个问题变得更加具有挑战性。在本文中，我们对单格和多代理RL的现有勘探方法进行了全面的调查。我们通过确定有效探索的几个关键挑战开始调查。除了上述两个主要分支外，我们还包括其他具有不同思想和技术的著名探索方法。除了算法分析外，我们还对一组常用基准的DRL进行了全面和统一的经验比较。根据我们的算法和实证研究，我们终于总结了DRL和Deep Marl中探索的公开问题，并指出了一些未来的方向。

深度强化学习（DRL）赋予了各种人工智能领域，包括模式识别，机器人技术，推荐系统和游戏。同样，图神经网络（GNN）也证明了它们在图形结构数据的监督学习方面的出色表现。最近，GNN与DRL用于图形结构环境的融合引起了很多关注。本文对这些混合动力作品进行了全面评论。这些作品可以分为两类：（1）算法增强，其中DRL和GNN相互补充以获得更好的实用性； （2）特定于应用程序的增强，其中DRL和GNN相互支持。这种融合有效地解决了工程和生命科学方面的各种复杂问题。基于审查，我们进一步分析了融合这两个领域的适用性和好处，尤其是在提高通用性和降低计算复杂性方面。最后，集成DRL和GNN的关键挑战以及潜在的未来研究方向被突出显示，这将引起更广泛的机器学习社区的关注。

值得信赖的强化学习算法应有能力解决挑战性的现实问题，包括{Robustly}处理不确定性，满足{安全}的限制以避免灾难性的失败，以及在部署过程中{prencepentiming}以避免灾难性的失败}。这项研究旨在概述这些可信赖的强化学习的主要观点，即考虑其在鲁棒性，安全性和概括性上的内在脆弱性。特别是，我们给出严格的表述，对相应的方法进行分类，并讨论每个观点的基准。此外，我们提供了一个前景部分，以刺激有希望的未来方向，并简要讨论考虑人类反馈的外部漏洞。我们希望这项调查可以在统一的框架中将单独的研究汇合在一起，并促进强化学习的可信度。

离线强化学习利用静态数据集来学习最佳策略，无需访问环境。由于代理商在线交互的展示和培训期间的样本数量，这种技术对于多代理学习任务是可取的。然而，在多代理强化学习（Marl）中，从未研究过在线微调的离线预训练的范式从未研究过，可以使用离线MARL研究的数据集或基准。在本文中，我们试图回答违规在Marl中的离线培训是否能够学习一般的政策表现，这些问题可以帮助提高多个下游任务的性能。我们首先引入基于Starcraftia环境的不同质量水平的第一个离线Marl数据集，然后提出了用于有效的离线学习的多代理决策变压器（MADT）的新颖体系结构。 MADT利用变换器的时间表示的建模能力，并将其与离线和在线MARL任务集成。 Madt的一个至关重要的好处是，它学会了可以在不同任务场景下不同类型的代理之间转移的可稳定性政策。当在脱机目的Datline数据上进行评估时，Madt展示了比最先进的离线RL基线的性能卓越。当应用于在线任务时，预先训练的MADT显着提高了样品效率，即使在零射击案件中也享有强大的性能。为了我们的最佳知识，这是第一个研究并展示了在Marl中的样本效率和最常性增强方面的离线预训练模型的有效性。

深度强化学习（RL）导致了许多最近和开创性的进步。但是，这些进步通常以培训的基础体系结构的规模增加以及用于训练它们的RL算法的复杂性提高，而均以增加规模的成本。这些增长反过来又使研究人员更难迅速原型新想法或复制已发表的RL算法。为了解决这些问题，这项工作描述了ACME，这是一个用于构建新型RL算法的框架，这些框架是专门设计的，用于启用使用简单的模块化组件构建的代理，这些组件可以在各种执行范围内使用。尽管ACME的主要目标是为算法开发提供一个框架，但第二个目标是提供重要或最先进算法的简单参考实现。这些实现既是对我们的设计决策的验证，也是对RL研究中可重复性的重要贡献。在这项工作中，我们描述了ACME内部做出的主要设计决策，并提供了有关如何使用其组件来实施各种算法的进一步详细信息。我们的实验为许多常见和最先进的算法提供了基准，并显示了如何为更大且更复杂的环境扩展这些算法。这突出了ACME的主要优点之一，即它可用于实现大型，分布式的RL算法，这些算法可以以较大的尺度运行，同时仍保持该实现的固有可读性。这项工作提出了第二篇文章的版本，恰好与模块化的增加相吻合，对离线，模仿和从演示算法学习以及作为ACME的一部分实现的各种新代理。

这篇综述解决了在深度强化学习（DRL）背景下学习测量数据的抽象表示的问题。尽管数据通常是模棱两可，高维且复杂的解释，但许多动态系统可以通过一组低维状态变量有效地描述。从数据中发现这些状态变量是提高数据效率，稳健性和DRL方法的概括，应对维度的诅咒以及将可解释性和见解带入Black-Box DRL的关键方面。这篇综述通过描述用于学习世界的学习代表的主要深度学习工具，提供对方法和原则的系统观点，总结应用程序，基准和评估策略，并讨论开放的方式，从而提供了DRL中无监督的代表性学习的全面概述，挑战和未来的方向。

We present a retrospective on the state of Embodied AI research. Our analysis focuses on 13 challenges presented at the Embodied AI Workshop at CVPR. These challenges are grouped into three themes: (1) visual navigation, (2) rearrangement, and (3) embodied vision-and-language. We discuss the dominant datasets within each theme, evaluation metrics for the challenges, and the performance of state-of-the-art models. We highlight commonalities between top approaches to the challenges and identify potential future directions for Embodied AI research.

Imitation learning techniques aim to mimic human behavior in a given task. An agent (a learning machine) is trained to perform a task from demonstrations by learning a mapping between observations and actions. The idea of teaching by imitation has been around for many years, however, the field is gaining attention recently due to advances in computing and sensing as well as rising demand for intelligent applications. The paradigm of learning by imitation is gaining popularity because it facilitates teaching complex tasks with minimal expert knowledge of the tasks. Generic imitation learning methods could potentially reduce the problem of teaching a task to that of providing demonstrations; without the need for explicit programming or designing reward functions specific to the task. Modern sensors are able to collect and transmit high volumes of data rapidly, and processors with high computational power allow fast processing that maps the sensory data to actions in a timely manner. This opens the door for many potential AI applications that require real-time perception and reaction such as humanoid robots, self-driving vehicles, human computer interaction and computer games to name a few. However, specialized algorithms are needed to effectively and robustly learn models as learning by imitation poses its own set of challenges. In this paper, we survey imitation learning methods and present design options in different steps of the learning process. We introduce a background and motivation for the field as well as highlight challenges specific to the imitation problem. Methods for designing and evaluating imitation learning tasks are categorized and reviewed. Special attention is given to learning methods in robotics and games as these domains are the most popular in the literature and provide a wide array of problems and methodologies. We extensively discuss combining imitation learning approaches using different sources and methods, as well as incorporating other motion learning methods to enhance imitation. We also discuss the potential impact on industry, present major applications and highlight current and future research directions.

深入学习的强化学习（RL）的结合导致了一系列令人印象深刻的壮举，许多相信（深）RL提供了一般能力的代理。然而，RL代理商的成功往往对培训过程中的设计选择非常敏感，这可能需要繁琐和易于易于的手动调整。这使得利用RL对新问题充满挑战，同时也限制了其全部潜力。在许多其他机器学习领域，AutomL已经示出了可以自动化这样的设计选择，并且在应用于RL时也会产生有希望的初始结果。然而，自动化强化学习（AutorL）不仅涉及Automl的标准应用，而且还包括RL独特的额外挑战，其自然地产生了不同的方法。因此，Autorl已成为RL中的一个重要研究领域，提供来自RNA设计的各种应用中的承诺，以便玩游戏等游戏。鉴于RL中考虑的方法和环境的多样性，在不同的子领域进行了大部分研究，从Meta学习到进化。在这项调查中，我们寻求统一自动的领域，我们提供常见的分类法，详细讨论每个区域并对研究人员来说是一个兴趣的开放问题。

基于变压器神经网络体系结构的自然语言处理（NLP）的令人印象深刻的结果激发了研究人员探索视线离线增强学习（RL）作为通用序列建模问题。基于此范式的最新著作已获得最新的结果，其中一些主要确定性的离线Atari和D4RL基准。但是，由于这些方法将国家和行动共同模拟单一的测序问题，因此它们努力将政策和世界动态对回报的影响解散。因此，在对抗或随机环境中，这些方法导致过度乐观的行为，在自主驾驶（例如自主驾驶）中可能是危险的。在这项工作中，我们提出了一种通过明确解开政策和世界模型来解决这种乐观偏见的方法，该方法使我们在测试时可以搜索对环境中多个可能的未来的稳健性的策略。我们在模拟中的各种自动驾驶任务上展示了我们的方法的出色性能。

Visual reinforcement learning (RL), which makes decisions directly from high-dimensional visual inputs, has demonstrated significant potential in various domains. However, deploying visual RL techniques in the real world remains challenging due to their low sample efficiency and large generalization gaps. To tackle these obstacles, data augmentation (DA) has become a widely used technique in visual RL for acquiring sample-efficient and generalizable policies by diversifying the training data. This survey aims to provide a timely and essential review of DA techniques in visual RL in recognition of the thriving development in this field. In particular, we propose a unified framework for analyzing visual RL and understanding the role of DA in it. We then present a principled taxonomy of the existing augmentation techniques used in visual RL and conduct an in-depth discussion on how to better leverage augmented data in different scenarios. Moreover, we report a systematic empirical evaluation of DA-based techniques in visual RL and conclude by highlighting the directions for future research. As the first comprehensive survey of DA in visual RL, this work is expected to offer valuable guidance to this emerging field.

由于数据量增加，金融业的快速变化已经彻底改变了数据处理和数据分析的技术，并带来了新的理论和计算挑战。与古典随机控制理论和解决财务决策问题的其他分析方法相比，解决模型假设的财务决策问题，强化学习（RL）的新发展能够充分利用具有更少模型假设的大量财务数据并改善复杂的金融环境中的决策。该调查纸目的旨在审查最近的资金途径的发展和使用RL方法。我们介绍了马尔可夫决策过程，这是许多常用的RL方法的设置。然后引入各种算法，重点介绍不需要任何模型假设的基于价值和基于策略的方法。连接是用神经网络进行的，以扩展框架以包含深的RL算法。我们的调查通过讨论了这些RL算法在金融中各种决策问题中的应用，包括最佳执行，投资组合优化，期权定价和对冲，市场制作，智能订单路由和Robo-Awaring。