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RAAM: The Benefits of Robustness in Approximating Aggregated MDPs in Reinforcement Learning
Marek Petrik · Dharmashankar Subramanian

Wed Dec 10 12:30 PM -- 12:50 PM (PST) @ Level 2, room 210
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We describe how to use robust Markov decision processes for value function approximation with state aggregation. The robustness serves to reduce the sensitivity to the approximation error of sub-optimal policies in comparison to classical methods such as fitted value iteration. This results in reducing the bounds on the gamma-discounted infinite horizon performance loss by a factor of 1/(1-gamma) while preserving polynomial-time computational complexity. Our experimental results show that using the robust representation can significantly improve the solution quality with minimal additional computational cost.

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Marek Petrik (University of New Hampshire)
Shankar Subramanian (IBM Research)

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