Summary of Dual Approximation Policy Optimization, by Zhihan Xiong et al.
Dual Approximation Policy Optimization
by Zhihan Xiong, Maryam Fazel, Lin Xiao
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Oct 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 proposed Dual Approximation Policy Optimization (DAPO) framework combines general function approximation with policy mirror descent methods. Unlike traditional approaches using the L2-norm to measure function approximation errors, DAPO employs the dual Bregman divergence induced by the mirror map for policy projection. This duality framework yields both theoretical and practical benefits: it achieves fast linear convergence with general function approximation and includes several well-known practical methods as special cases, providing strong convergence guarantees. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary DAPO is a new way to optimize policies that combines two important ideas in machine learning. It uses a method called “policy mirror descent” to find the best policy, but instead of using a simple distance measure like L2-norm, it uses something called “dual Bregman divergence”. This lets DAPO get better results and also makes it easier to understand why some methods work well. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Machine learning * Optimization
