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Which Rewards Matter? Reward Selection for Reinforcement Learning under Limited Feedback
Shreyas Chaudhari, Renhao Zhang, Philip S. Thomas +1
The ability of reinforcement learning algorithms to learn effective policies is determined by the rewards available during training. However, for practical problems, obtaining larg…
ICU-Sepsis: A Benchmark MDP Built from Real Medical Data
Kartik Choudhary, Dhawal Gupta, Philip S. Thomas
We present ICU-Sepsis, an environment that can be used in benchmarks for evaluating reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. Sepsis management is a complex task that has been an imp…
Abstract Reward Processes: Leveraging State Abstraction for Consistent Off-Policy Evaluation
Shreyas Chaudhari, Ameet Deshpande, Bruno Castro da Silva +1
Evaluating policies using off-policy data is crucial for applying reinforcement learning to real-world problems such as healthcare and autonomous driving. Previous methods for off-…
Position: Benchmarking is Limited in Reinforcement Learning Research
Scott M. Jordan, Adam White, Bruno Castro da Silva +2
Novel reinforcement learning algorithms, or improvements on existing ones, are commonly justified by evaluating their performance on benchmark environments and are compared to an e…