Ucb momentum q-learning: Correcting the bias without forgetting

P Ménard, OD Domingues, X Shang… - … on Machine Learning, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract We propose UCBMQ, Upper Confidence Bound Momentum Q-learning, a new
algorithm for reinforcement learning in tabular and possibly stage-dependent, episodic …

Optimistic posterior sampling for reinforcement learning with few samples and tight guarantees

D Tiapkin, D Belomestny… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We consider reinforcement learning in an environment modeled by an episodic, tabular,
step-dependent Markov decision process of horizon $ H $ with $ S $ states, and $ A …

Near instance-optimal pac reinforcement learning for deterministic mdps

A Tirinzoni, A Al Marjani… - Advances in neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In probably approximately correct (PAC) reinforcement learning (RL), an agent is required to
identify an $\epsilon $-optimal policy with probability $1-\delta $. While minimax optimal …

Model-based uncertainty in value functions

CE Luis, AG Bottero, J Vinogradska… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We consider the problem of quantifying uncertainty over expected cumulative rewards in
model-based reinforcement learning. In particular, we focus on characterizing the variance …

Model-free posterior sampling via learning rate randomization

D Tiapkin, D Belomestny… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In this paper, we introduce Randomized Q-learning (RandQL), a novel randomized model-
free algorithm for regret minimization in episodic Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). To the …

Online policy optimization for robust mdp

J Dong, J Li, B Wang, J Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.13841, 2022 - arxiv.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has exceeded human performance in many synthetic settings
such as video games and Go. However, real-world deployment of end-to-end RL models is …

Bandits corrupted by nature: Lower bounds on regret and robust optimistic algorithm

D Basu, OA Maillard, T Mathieu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.03186, 2022 - arxiv.org
We study the corrupted bandit problem, ie a stochastic multi-armed bandit problem with $ k $
unknown reward distributions, which are heavy-tailed and corrupted by a history …

Value-Distributional Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

CE Luis, AG Bottero, J Vinogradska… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Quantifying uncertainty about a policy's long-term performance is important to solve
sequential decision-making tasks. We study the problem from a model-based Bayesian …

Model-Based Epistemic Variance of Values for Risk-Aware Policy Optimization

CE Luis, AG Bottero, J Vinogradska… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We consider the problem of quantifying uncertainty over expected cumulative rewards in
model-based reinforcement learning. In particular, we focus on characterizing the variance …

Adaptive discretization in online reinforcement learning

SR Sinclair, S Banerjee, CL Yu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.15843, 2021 - arxiv.org
Discretization based approaches to solving online reinforcement learning problems have
been studied extensively in practice on applications ranging from resource allocation to …