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A PAC RL Algorithm for Episodic POMDPs
Zhaohan Daniel Guo, Shayan Doroudi, Emma Brunskill
Many interesting real world domains involve reinforcement learning (RL) in partially observable environments. Efficient learning in such domains is important, but existing sample c…
cs.LG2016
Latent Contextual Bandits and their Application to Personalized Recommendations for New Users
Li Zhou, Emma Brunskill
Personalized recommendations for new users, also known as the cold-start problem, can be formulated as a contextual bandit problem. Existing contextual bandit algorithms generally…
cs.LG2016
Data-Efficient Off-Policy Policy Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning
Philip S. Thomas, Emma Brunskill
In this paper we present a new way of predicting the performance of a reinforcement learning policy given historical data that may have been generated by a different policy. The ab…