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Safe Policy Improvement by Minimizing Robust Baseline Regret

NeurIPS 2016 · Reinforcement learning › Policy gradient and actor-critic · approach: Safe policy improvement · 64 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
minimize robust baseline regret (RBC) instead of plain robust formulationsafe policy improvement · Illustrative examplereturn of optimal policy vs baseline: -9 - (-10) = 1Helped
use RBC heuristic instead of nominal model (EXP)RBC · Example grid problemimprovement in return over baselineHelped
use RBC instead of ROB and RWA with few samplesRBC · Example grid problemimprovement in return over baselineHelped
reward-adjusted formulation (RWA) instead of robustRWA · Illustrative examplesafe improvementHurt
use RBC heuristicRBC · Energy arbitragepercentage improvement over baselineHelped
increase number of transition samples (smaller model error)all methods · Example grid problemimprovement over baselineHelped

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