Rate-Optimal Policy Optimization for Linear Markov Decision Processes

08/28/2023

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by   Uri Sherman, et al.

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We study regret minimization in online episodic linear Markov Decision Processes, and obtain rate-optimal O (√(K)) regret where K denotes the number of episodes. Our work is the first to establish the optimal (w.r.t. K) rate of convergence in the stochastic setting with bandit feedback using a policy optimization based approach, and the first to establish the optimal (w.r.t. K) rate in the adversarial setup with full information feedback, for which no algorithm with an optimal rate guarantee is currently known.