Summary of A Policy Gradient Primal-dual Algorithm For Constrained Mdps with Uniform Pac Guarantees, by Toshinori Kitamura et al.
A Policy Gradient Primal-Dual Algorithm for Constrained MDPs with Uniform PAC Guarantees
by Toshinori Kitamura, Tadashi Kozuno, Masahiro Kato, Yuki Ichihara, Soichiro Nishimori, Akiyoshi Sannai, Sho Sonoda, Wataru Kumagai, Yutaka Matsuo
First submitted to arxiv on: 31 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a novel policy gradient primal-dual reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm for online constrained Markov decision processes (CMDPs). The existing theoretical literature on PD-RL algorithms for this problem only provides sublinear regret guarantees, but the new algorithm ensures convergence to optimal policies, sublinear regret, and polynomial sample complexity for any target accuracy. This represents the first Uniform-PAC algorithm for the online CMDP problem. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps us learn better in situations where we need to make good choices while following rules. It develops a new way to solve this type of problem using reinforcement learning, which is a kind of machine learning. The old ways of solving this problem didn’t work well and had some limitations. But the new approach ensures that we can find the best solution while following the rules, and it’s efficient too. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Machine learning * Reinforcement learning
