3 papers
cs.LG2025
Global Convergence for Average Reward Constrained MDPs with Primal-Dual Actor Critic Algorithm
Yang Xu, Swetha Ganesh, Washim Uddin Mondal +2
This paper investigates infinite-horizon average reward Constrained Markov Decision Processes (CMDPs) with general parametrization. We propose a Primal-Dual Natural Actor-Critic al…
stat.ML2025
Finite-Sample Analysis of Policy Evaluation for Robust Average Reward Reinforcement Learning
Yang Xu, Washim Uddin Mondal, Vaneet Aggarwal
We present the first finite-sample analysis of policy evaluation in robust average-reward Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). Prior work in this setting have established only asympto…
quant-ph2025
Accelerating Quantum Reinforcement Learning with a Quantum Natural Policy Gradient Based Approach
Yang Xu, Vaneet Aggarwal
We address the problem of quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) under model-free settings with quantum oracle access to the Markov Decision Process (MDP). This paper introduces a Qu…