Approximated Behavioral Metric-based State Projection for Federated Reinforcement Learning
Approximated Behavioral Metric-based State Projection for Federated Reinforcement Learning
Zengxia Guo, Bohui An, Zhongqi Lu
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 5298-5306.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/590
Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) methods usually share the encrypted local state or policy information and help each client to learn from others while preserving everyone's privacy. In this work, we propose that sharing the approximated behavior metric-based state projection function is a promising way to enhance the performance of FRL and concurrently provides an effective protection of sensitive information. We introduce FedRAG, a FRL framework to learn a computationally practical projection function of states for each client and aggregating the parameters of projection functions at a central server. The FedRAG approach shares no sensitive task-specific information, yet provides information gain for each client. We conduct extensive experiments on the DeepMind Control Suite to demonstrate insightful results.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: ML: Federated learning
Machine Learning: ML: Reinforcement learning
Machine Learning: ML: Representation learning
Machine Learning: ML: Trustworthy machine learning
