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Comments on the Du-Kakade-Wang-Yang Lower Bounds

Machine Learning 2019-11-20 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Du, Kakade, Wang, and Yang recently established intriguing lower bounds on sample complexity, which suggest that reinforcement learning with a misspecified representation is intractable. Another line of work, which centers around a statistic called the eluder dimension, establishes tractability of problems similar to those considered in the Du-Kakade-Wang-Yang paper. We compare these results and reconcile interpretations.

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@article{arxiv.1911.07910,
  title  = {Comments on the Du-Kakade-Wang-Yang Lower Bounds},
  author = {Benjamin Van Roy and Shi Dong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.07910},
  year   = {2019}
}
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