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20132023
most citedVariational Policy Gradient Method for Reinforcement Learning with General Utilities

37 citations · 183 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

math.OC2023

On the Optimal Lower and Upper Complexity Bounds for a Class of Composite Optimization Problems

Zhenyuan Zhu, Fan Chen, Junyu Zhang +1

We study the optimal lower and upper complexity bounds for finding approximate solutions to the composite problem , where is smooth and is convex. Giv…

cs.LG2023

Offline Meta Reinforcement Learning with In-Distribution Online Adaptation

Jianhao Wang, Jin Zhang, Haozhe Jiang +3

Recent offline meta-reinforcement learning (meta-RL) methods typically utilize task-dependent behavior policies (e.g., training RL agents on each individual task) to collect a mult…

math.OC2023

Efficient First Order Method for Saddle Point Problems with Higher Order Smoothness

Nuozhou Wang, Junyu Zhang, Shuzhong Zhang

This paper studies the complexity of finding approximate stationary points for the smooth nonconvex-strongly-concave (NC-SC) saddle point problem: . Under the s…

math.OC2023

Gauss-Newton Temporal Difference Learning with Nonlinear Function Approximation

Zhifa Ke, Junyu Zhang, Zaiwen Wen

In this paper, a Gauss-Newton Temporal Difference (GNTD) learning method is proposed to solve the Q-learning problem with nonlinear function approximation. In each iteration, our m…

math.OC2022★ 1 cited

A Unified Primal-Dual Algorithm Framework for Inequality Constrained Problems

Zhenyuan Zhu, Fan Chen, Junyu Zhang +1

In this paper, we propose a unified primal-dual algorithm framework based on the augmented Lagrangian function for composite convex problems with conic inequality constraints. The…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

A Near-Optimal Primal-Dual Method for Off-Policy Learning in CMDP

Fan Chen, Junyu Zhang, Zaiwen Wen

As an important framework for safe Reinforcement Learning, the Constrained Markov Decision Process (CMDP) has been extensively studied in the recent literature. However, despite th…