Offline Reinforcement Learning Under Value and Density-Ratio Realizability: the Power of Gaps

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13935v1
• Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 23:33:38 GMT
• Title: Offline Reinforcement Learning Under Value and Density-Ratio Realizability: the Power of Gaps
• Authors: Jinglin Chen, Nan Jiang
• Abstract summary: We provide guarantees to a pessimistic algorithm based on a version space formed by marginalized importance sampling. Our work is the first to identify the utility and the novel mechanism of gap assumptions in offline reinforcement learning.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We consider a challenging theoretical problem in offline reinforcement learning (RL): obtaining sample-efficiency guarantees with a dataset lacking sufficient coverage, under only realizability-type assumptions for the function approximators. While the existing theory has addressed learning under realizability and under non-exploratory data separately, no work has been able to address both simultaneously (except for a concurrent work which we compare to in detail). Under an additional gap assumption, we provide guarantees to a simple pessimistic algorithm based on a version space formed by marginalized importance sampling, and the guarantee only requires the data to cover the optimal policy and the function classes to realize the optimal value and density-ratio functions. While similar gap assumptions have been used in other areas of RL theory, our work is the first to identify the utility and the novel mechanism of gap assumptions in offline RL.

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