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Stable and Efficient Policy Evaluation

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Daoming Lyu
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Bo Liu *
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Matthieu Geist
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Wen Dong
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Saâd Biaz
王琦 (Qi Wang)
DOI:10.1109/TNNLS.2018.2871361delete
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Policy evaluation algorithms are essential to reinforcement learning due to their ability to predict the performance of a policy. However, there are two long-standing issues lying in this prediction problem that need to be tackled: off-policy stability and on-policy efficiency. The conventional temporal difference (TD) algorithm is known to perform very well in the on-policy setting, yet is not off-policy stable. On the other hand, the gradient TD and emphatic TD algorithms are off-policy stable, but are not on-policy efficient. This paper introduces novel algorithms that are both off-policy stable and on-policy efficient by using the oblique projection method. The empirical experimental results on various domains validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Keywords:
Off-policy
policy evaluation
reinforcement learning (RL)
temporal difference (TD) learning
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IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems cover
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
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