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Model selection in reinforcement learning

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Amir‐massoud Farahmand
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Csaba Szepesvári *
DOI:10.1007/s10994-011-5254-7delete
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We consider the problem of model selection in the batch (offline, non-interactive) reinforcement learning setting when the goal is to find an action-value function with the smallest Bellman error among a countable set of candidates functions. We propose a complexity regularization-based model selection algorithm, BERMIN, and prove that it enjoys an oracle-like property: the estimator's error differs from that of an oracle, who selects the candidate with the minimum Bellman error, by only a constant factor and a small remainder term that vanishes at a parametric rate as the number of samples increases. As an application, we consider a problem when the true action-value function belongs to an unknown member of a nested sequence of function spaces. We show that under some additional technical conditions BERMIN leads to a procedure whose rate of convergence, up to a constant factor, matches that of an oracle who knows which of the nested function spaces the true action-value function belongs to, i.e., the procedure achieves adaptivity.
Keywords:
Reinforcement learning
Model selection
Complexity regularization
Adaptivity
Offline learning
Off-policy learning
Finite-sample bounds

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Machine Learning cover
Machine Learning
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university of alberta
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