Poster
Representation Balancing MDPs for Off-policy Policy Evaluation
Yao Liu · Omer Gottesman · Aniruddh Raghu · Matthieu Komorowski · Aldo Faisal · Finale Doshi-Velez · Emma Brunskill
Room 517 AB #123
Keywords: [ Reinforcement Learning ] [ Model-Based RL ] [ Causal Inference ] [ Markov Decision Processes ]
We study the problem of off-policy policy evaluation (OPPE) in RL. In contrast to prior work, we consider how to estimate both the individual policy value and average policy value accurately. We draw inspiration from recent work in causal reasoning, and propose a new finite sample generalization error bound for value estimates from MDP models. Using this upper bound as an objective, we develop a learning algorithm of an MDP model with a balanced representation, and show that our approach can yield substantially lower MSE in common synthetic benchmarks and a HIV treatment simulation domain.
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