arXiv:2603. 09344v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) enables data-efficient and safe policy learning without online exploration, but its performance often degrades under distribution shift.
By Hongqiang Lin, Zhenghui Fu, Weihao Tang, Pengfei Wang, Yiding Sun, Qixian Huang, Dongxu Zhang
arXiv:2506. 07040v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study model-free methods for distributionally robust infinite-horizon average-reward Markov decision processes (MDPs).
By Yang Xu, Swetha Ganesh, Vaneet Aggarwal
arXiv:2607. 06610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Portfolio optimization under uncertainty is inherently a multi-objective decision problem involving complex interactions among return, risk, market dynamics, and practical investment constraints.
By Sounaq Das, Tanmay Sen, Raghu Nandan Sengupta, Aditya Gupta
arXiv:2608. 03562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) with general utility extends classic RL by optimizing an arbitrary utility functional of the policy-induced occupancy measure, thereby enabling a broader range of applications.
By Zixuan Liu, Fangzheng Wu, Brian Summa, Zizhan Zheng
arXiv:2607. 09298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study general-utility Markov decision processes (GUMDPs) with risk-aware objectives.
By Pedro P. Santos, F\'abio Vital, Alberto Sardinha, Francisco S. Melo
arXiv:2602. 23672v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This study proposes a General Bayes framework for policy learning.
By Masahiro Kato
arXiv:2602. 03778v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tail-end risk measures such as static conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) are used in safety-critical applications to prevent rare, yet catastrophic events.
By Aneri Muni, Vincent Taboga, Esther Derman, Pierre-Luc Bacon, Erick Delage
arXiv:2605. 23146v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Classical reinforcement learning assumes the agent interacts with a fixed environment whose behavior does not depend on the agent's policy.
By Manish Aryal, Faiyaz Azam, Agnivo Banerjee, Syed Mahir Ahamed, Sai Sidhanth Manoharan Jayanthi, Allegra Laro, Cl\'ement Legentilhomme, Andrew Lin, Florian Lorkowski, Marina P\'erez del Valle, Radman Rakhshandehroo, Patric Rommel, Emanuel Ruzak, Nathan Theng, Paul Yushin Rapoport
arXiv:2607. 26680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown remarkable success across a wide range of complex tasks.
By Mingxuan Che, Tsung-Yuan Tseng, Theresa Eimer, Marius Lindauer, Alexander von Rohr
arXiv:2607. 05375v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Occupancy ratios correct distribution shift in offline reinforcement learning and are central to off-policy evaluation.
By Lars van der Laan, Nathan Kallus
arXiv:2607. 04278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose the first deep learning algorithm, the Certainty Equivalent Learning (CEL) algorithm, for solving high-dimensional discrete-time dynamic programming problems with recursive utility.
By Xianhua Peng, Wu Guo
arXiv:2606. 27766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning enables policy learning from fixed datasets without additional environment interaction, making it appealing for safety-critical applications where online exploration is costly or unsafe.
By Shiqiang Gong