Is a good representation sufficient for sample-efficient offline RL? In practice, offline RL can be very sensitive to distribution shift even when using features from pretrained neural networks on the same task
https://t.co/K9EKooKT8w
w/t @RuosongW, Wu & @ShamKakade6#icml2021
More bad news from those mean theoreticians: Unlike in planning with a simulator, even a positive action gap is insufficient for efficient online RL if all one has is linear q^* realizability. Yuanhao Wang's talk is next Tuesday at the RL Theory Seminar. https://t.co/Ct4jYY1d25
Our next talk:
06/08: Yuanhao Wang (Princeton, @yuanhaowang3)
"An Exponential Lower Bound for Linearly-Realizable MDPs with Constant Suboptimality Gap"
For details, please see the website:
https://t.co/zra0wITmwb
Our next talk:
03/09: Ruosong Wang (CMU)
"What are the statistical limits of offline RL with linear function approximation?"
For details, please see the website:
https://t.co/zra0wITmwb
Advisor abuse of power is a serious problem in academia. I know victims who are reluctant to discuss it for fear of damaging their careers, especially if they are on a visa. I'm really happy to see this MIT org pushing to do something about it. Hopefully others follow.
Alekh Agarwal, Akshay Krishnamurthy, and I finished a major tutorial on "Theoretical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning" (https://t.co/hgvm9zALw5) for FOCS (https://t.co/KAen7kXhhA), but potentially of much broader interest. We'll be doing Q&A Friday.
Planning with Submodular Objective Functions: Instead of maximizing cumulative reward, maximize the objective induced by submodular function. Standard planning & submodular maximization can be viewed as special cases
https://t.co/yLgz1sMHqI
w/ @RuosongW, Zhang, @dchaplot et al
Introducing SAM: An easy-to-use algorithm derived by connecting PAC Bayesian bounds and geometry of the loss landscape. Achieves SOTA on benchmark image tasks (0.3% error on CIFAR10, 3.9% on CIFAR100) and drastically improves label noise robustness.
https://t.co/aONWVTPZsT
Duke Comp Sci PhD candidate Hanrui Zhang receives best student paper award at 28th European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA) Sept. 7-9, 2020. A 4th-yr PhD student, Zhang's research area is Econ. & Computation; he's advised by Prof. Vincent Conitzer. Congrats! https://t.co/e55vvMdo1N