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Near-Optimal Sample Complexities of Divergence-based S-rectangular Distributionally Robust Reinforcement Learning
Zhenghao Li, Shengbo Wang, Nian Si
Distributionally robust reinforcement learning (DR-RL) has recently gained significant attention as a principled approach that addresses discrepancies between training and testing…
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Sample Complexity of Distributionally Robust Average-Reward Reinforcement Learning
Zijun Chen, Shengbo Wang, Nian Si
Motivated by practical applications where stable long-term performance is critical-such as robotics, operations research, and healthcare-we study the problem of distributionally ro…
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Achieving Dependence for Average-Reward Q-Learning with a New Contraction Principle
Zijun Chen, Zaiwei Chen, Nian Si +1
We present the convergence rates of synchronous and asynchronous Q-learning for average-reward Markov decision processes, where the absence of contraction poses a fundamental chall…