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cs.LG2019

Provably Efficient Exploration in Policy Optimization

Qi Cai, Zhuoran Yang, Chi Jin +1

While policy-based reinforcement learning (RL) achieves tremendous successes in practice, it is significantly less understood in theory, especially compared with value-based RL. In…

cs.LG2019

Learning Adversarial MDPs with Bandit Feedback and Unknown Transition

Chi Jin, Tiancheng Jin, Haipeng Luo +2

We consider the problem of learning in episodic finite-horizon Markov decision processes with an unknown transition function, bandit feedback, and adversarial losses. We propose an…

cs.LG2019

Provably Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation

Chi Jin, Zhuoran Yang, Zhaoran Wang +1

Modern Reinforcement Learning (RL) is commonly applied to practical problems with an enormous number of states, where function approximation must be deployed to approximate either…

cs.LG2019

On Gradient Descent Ascent for Nonconvex-Concave Minimax Problems

Tianyi Lin, Chi Jin, Michael I. Jordan

We consider nonconvex-concave minimax problems, , where is nonconvex in but concave…

cs.LG2019

On Nonconvex Optimization for Machine Learning: Gradients, Stochasticity, and Saddle Points

Chi Jin, Praneeth Netrapalli, Rong Ge +2

Gradient descent (GD) and stochastic gradient descent (SGD) are the workhorses of large-scale machine learning. While classical theory focused on analyzing the performance of these…

cs.LG2019

What is Local Optimality in Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization?

Chi Jin, Praneeth Netrapalli, Michael I. Jordan

Minimax optimization has found extensive applications in modern machine learning, in settings such as generative adversarial networks (GANs), adversarial training and multi-agent r…