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Conditional Importance Sampling for Off-Policy Learning

Machine Learning 2020-07-31 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

The principal contribution of this paper is a conceptual framework for off-policy reinforcement learning, based on conditional expectations of importance sampling ratios. This framework yields new perspectives and understanding of existing off-policy algorithms, and reveals a broad space of unexplored algorithms. We theoretically analyse this space, and concretely investigate several algorithms that arise from this framework.

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@article{arxiv.1910.07479,
  title  = {Conditional Importance Sampling for Off-Policy Learning},
  author = {Mark Rowland and Anna Harutyunyan and Hado van Hasselt and Diana Borsa and Tom Schaul and Rémi Munos and Will Dabney},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.07479},
  year   = {2020}
}

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