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stat.ML2026

Online Inference for Quantile Temporal Difference Learning in Distributional Reinforcement Learning

Zijie Cheng, Yang Peng, Zhihua Zhang

In this paper, we study how to perform statistical inference for quantile temporal difference learning (QTD) in distributional reinforcement learning. Assuming access to a generati…

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Statistical Efficiency and Inference of Quantile Distributional Reinforcement Learning

Zijie Cheng, Yang Peng, Zhihua Zhang

In this paper, we study quantile-based distributional reinforcement learning from the perspective of statistical efficiency. We focus on distributional policy evaluation, whose goa…

stat.ML2025

Accelerated Distributional Temporal Difference Learning with Linear Function Approximation

Kaicheng Jin, Yang Peng, Jiansheng Yang +1

In this paper, we study the finite-sample statistical rates of distributional temporal difference (TD) learning with linear function approximation. The purpose of distributional TD…

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A Finite Sample Analysis of Distributional TD Learning with Linear Function Approximation

Yang Peng, Kaicheng Jin, Liangyu Zhang +1

In this paper, we study the finite-sample statistical rates of distributional temporal difference (TD) learning with linear function approximation. The aim of distributional TD lea…

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Statistical Efficiency of Distributional Temporal Difference Learning and Freedman's Inequality in Hilbert Spaces

Yang Peng, Liangyu Zhang, Zhihua Zhang

Distributional reinforcement learning (DRL) has achieved empirical success in various domains. One core task in DRL is distributional policy evaluation, which involves estimating t…