Poster
Optimal Uniform OPE and Model-based Offline Reinforcement Learning in Time-Homogeneous, Reward-Free and Task-Agnostic Settings
Ming Yin · Yu-Xiang Wang
Keywords: [ Theory ] [ Reinforcement Learning and Planning ]
Abstract:
This work studies the statistical limits of uniform convergence for offline policy evaluation (OPE) problems with model-based methods (for episodic MDP) and provides a unified framework towards optimal learning for several well-motivated offline tasks. Uniform OPE is a stronger measure than the point-wise OPE and ensures offline learning when contains all policies (the global class). In this paper, we establish an lower bound (over model-based family) for the global uniform OPE and our main result establishes an upper bound of for the \emph{local} uniform convergence that applies to all \emph{near-empirically optimal} policies for the MDPs with \emph{stationary} transition. Here is the minimal marginal state-action probability. Critically, the highlight in achieving the optimal rate is our design of \emph{singleton absorbing MDP}, which is a new sharp analysis tool that works with the model-based approach. We generalize such a model-based framework to the new settings: offline task-agnostic and the offline reward-free with optimal complexity ( is the number of tasks) and respectively. These results provide a unified solution for simultaneously solving different offline RL problems.
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