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On Oracle-Efficient PAC RL with Rich Observations

NeurIPS 2018 · Reinforcement learning › MDPs and planning · approach: Rich-observation exploration · 17 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Use local value estimates with depth-first exploration, state-identity pruning, and oracle-based policy optimizationValor · Deterministic hidden-state dynamicstrajectories for an ε-optimal policy: \tilot\left(\frac{M^3H^8K}{\epsilon^5}\log(|\Gcal||\Pi|/\delta)\log^3(1/\delta)\right)Helped
Implement Olive's joint value-and-policy optimization using standard CSC, LP, and LS oraclesOlive · Tabular MDPscomputational tractabilityHurt
Replace joint optimization over values and policies with dynamic programming that fixes future values before optimizing the current policyValor · Deterministic hidden-state dynamicsoracle efficiency: O\left( \frac{MH^2}{\epsilon}\log \frac {MH}{\delta}\right) CSC oracle calls; O\left( \frac{MKH^2}{\epsilon}\log \frac {Helped
Use stored local values rather than bootstrap or Monte Carlo targetsValor · Deterministic hidden-state dynamicsrealizability assumptionsHelped
Use bootstrap targets or Monte Carlo return targets instead of stored local valuesAlternative oracle-efficient algorithms · Deterministic hidden-state dynamicsrealizability assumptionsHurt

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