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Stochastic cubic-regularized policy gradient method

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Pengfei Wang
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Hongyu Wang
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郑能干 (Nenggan Zheng) *
DOI:10.1016/j.knosys.2022.109687delete
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Policy-based reinforcement learning methods have achieved great achievements in real-world decisionmaking problems. However, the theoretical understanding of policy-based methods is still limited. Specifically, existing works mainly focus on first-order stationary point policies (FOSPs); in some very special reinforcement learning settings (e.g., tabular case and function approximation with restricted parametric policy classes) some works consider globally optimal policy. It is well-known that FOSPs could be undesirable local optima or saddle points, and obtaining a global optimum is generally NP-hard. In this paper, we propose a policy gradient method that provably converges to secondorder stationary point policies (SOSPs) for any differentiable policy classes. The proposed method is computationally efficient, and it judiciously uses cubic-regularized subroutines to escape saddle points while at the same time minimizing the Hessian-based computations. We prove that the method enjoys the sample complexity of O tilde (epsilon-3.5), which improves upon the current optimal complexity O tilde (epsilon-4.5). Finally, experimental results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.(c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keyword:
Reinforcement learning
Policy gradient
Stochastic optimization
Non -convex optimization
Second-order stationary point

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Knowledge-Based Systems
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7.6
论文数:
1.3W
被引数:
4.5W

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zhejiang university
学者数:
17.7W
论文数: 12.1W
被引数: 152
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