Stochastic Shortest Path: Minimax, ...
Document type :
Communication dans un congrès avec actes
Title :
Stochastic Shortest Path: Minimax, Parameter-Free and Towards Horizon-Free Regret
Author(s) :
Tarbouriech, Jean [Auteur]
Scool [Scool]
Facebook AI Research [Paris] [FAIR]
Zhou, Runlong [Auteur]
Tsinghua University [Beijing] [THU]
Du, Simon [Auteur]
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering [Seattle]
Pirotta, Matteo [Auteur]
Facebook AI Research [Paris] [FAIR]
Valko, Michal [Auteur]
DeepMind [Paris]
Lazaric, Alessandro [Auteur]
Facebook AI Research [Paris] [FAIR]
Scool [Scool]
Facebook AI Research [Paris] [FAIR]
Zhou, Runlong [Auteur]
Tsinghua University [Beijing] [THU]
Du, Simon [Auteur]
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering [Seattle]
Pirotta, Matteo [Auteur]
Facebook AI Research [Paris] [FAIR]
Valko, Michal [Auteur]
DeepMind [Paris]
Lazaric, Alessandro [Auteur]
Facebook AI Research [Paris] [FAIR]
Conference title :
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
City :
Virtual/Sydney
Country :
Australie
Start date of the conference :
2021-12-06
HAL domain(s) :
Statistiques [stat]/Machine Learning [stat.ML]
Informatique [cs]/Apprentissage [cs.LG]
Informatique [cs]/Apprentissage [cs.LG]
English abstract : [en]
We study the problem of learning in the stochastic shortest path (SSP) setting, where an agent seeks to minimize the expected cost accumulated before reaching a goal state. We design a novel model-based algorithm EB-SSP ...
Show more >We study the problem of learning in the stochastic shortest path (SSP) setting, where an agent seeks to minimize the expected cost accumulated before reaching a goal state. We design a novel model-based algorithm EB-SSP that carefully skews the empirical transitions and perturbs the empirical costs with an exploration bonus to induce an optimistic SSP problem whose associated value iteration scheme is guaranteed to converge. We prove that EB-SSP achieves the minimax regret rate O(B* √ SAK), where K is the number of episodes, S is the number of states, A is the number of actions, and B* bounds the expected cumulative cost of the optimal policy from any state, thus closing the gap with the lower bound. Interestingly, EB-SSP obtains this result while being parameter-free, i.e., it does not require any prior knowledge of B*, nor of T*, which bounds the expected time-to-goal of the optimal policy from any state. Furthermore, we illustrate various cases (e.g., positive costs, or general costs when an order-accurate estimate of T* is available) where the regret only contains a logarithmic dependence on T*, thus yielding the first (nearly) horizon-free regret bound beyond the finite-horizon MDP setting.Show less >
Show more >We study the problem of learning in the stochastic shortest path (SSP) setting, where an agent seeks to minimize the expected cost accumulated before reaching a goal state. We design a novel model-based algorithm EB-SSP that carefully skews the empirical transitions and perturbs the empirical costs with an exploration bonus to induce an optimistic SSP problem whose associated value iteration scheme is guaranteed to converge. We prove that EB-SSP achieves the minimax regret rate O(B* √ SAK), where K is the number of episodes, S is the number of states, A is the number of actions, and B* bounds the expected cumulative cost of the optimal policy from any state, thus closing the gap with the lower bound. Interestingly, EB-SSP obtains this result while being parameter-free, i.e., it does not require any prior knowledge of B*, nor of T*, which bounds the expected time-to-goal of the optimal policy from any state. Furthermore, we illustrate various cases (e.g., positive costs, or general costs when an order-accurate estimate of T* is available) where the regret only contains a logarithmic dependence on T*, thus yielding the first (nearly) horizon-free regret bound beyond the finite-horizon MDP setting.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Peer reviewed article :
Oui
Audience :
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