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Unifying PAC and Regret: Uniform PAC Bounds for Episodic Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2017 · Bandits and online learning › RL theory and MDPs · approach: Linear function approximation in RL · 138 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Use finite-time law-of-iterated-logarithm confidence bounds instead of episode-dependent confidence widthsOptimism-based episodic RL · Randomly generated episodic MDPsexpected returnHelped
Use time-uniform confidence bounds and optimistic planning in UBEVFinite-state episodic MDPs · Finite-state episodic MDPsUniform-PAC sample complexityHelped
Use Uniform-PAC mistake boundsEpisodic RL algorithms · Finite-state episodic MDPshigh-probability regretHelped

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