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Planning in entropy-regularized Markov decision processes and games
Jean-Bastien Grill · Omar Darwiche Domingues · Pierre Menard · Remi Munos · Michal Valko

Thu Dec 12 10:45 AM -- 12:45 PM (PST) @ East Exhibition Hall B + C #217
in Reinforcement Learning and Planning -- Planning »
We propose SmoothCruiser, a new planning algorithm for estimating the value function in entropy-regularized Markov decision processes and two-player games, given a generative model of the SmoothCruiser. SmoothCruiser makes use of the smoothness of the Bellman operator promoted by the regularization to achieve problem-independent sample complexity of order $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(1/\epsilon^4)$ for a desired accuracy $\epsilon$, whereas for non-regularized settings there are no known algorithms with guaranteed polynomial sample complexity in the worst case.
Keywords: Reinforcement Learning and Planning · Reinforcement Learning and Planning -> Markov Decision Processes; Reinforcement Learning and Planning · Planning; Reinforcemen
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Jean-Bastien Grill (Google DeepMind)
Omar Darwiche Domingues (Inria)
Pierre Menard (Inria)
Remi Munos (DeepMind)
Michal Valko (DeepMind Paris and Inria Lille - Nord Europe)
Michal Valko

Michal is a machine learning scientist in DeepMind Paris, tenured researcher at Inria, and the lecturer of the master course Graphs in Machine Learning at l'ENS Paris-Saclay. Michal is primarily interested in designing algorithms that would require as little human supervision as possible. This means 1) reducing the “intelligence” that humans need to input into the system and 2) minimizing the data that humans need to spend inspecting, classifying, or “tuning” the algorithms. That is why he is working on methods and settings that are able to deal with minimal feedback, such as deep reinforcement learning, bandit algorithms, or self-supervised learning. Michal is actively working on represenation learning and building worlds models. He is also working on deep (reinforcement) learning algorithm that have some theoretical underpinning. He has also worked on sequential algorithms with structured decisions where exploiting the structure leads to provably faster learning. He received his Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of Pittsburgh under the supervision of Miloš Hauskrecht and after was a postdoc of Rémi Munos before taking a permanent position at Inria in 2012.

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