Rates of Convergence in Certain Native Spaces of Approximations used in Reinforcement Learning

09/14/2023

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by   Ali Bouland, et al.

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This paper studies convergence rates for some value function approximations that arise in a collection of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) H(Ω). By casting an optimal control problem in a specific class of native spaces, strong rates of convergence are derived for the operator equation that enables offline approximations that appear in policy iteration. Explicit upper bounds on error in value function approximations are derived in terms of power function _H,N for the space of finite dimensional approximants H_N in the native space H(Ω). These bounds are geometric in nature and refine some well-known, now classical results concerning convergence of approximations of value functions.