arXiv:2607. 22982v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural Policy Gradient (NPG) is a well-established Reinforcement Learning algorithm that underlies widely used methods such as Trust Region Policy Optimization and Proximal Policy Optimization, both of which have demonstrated strong empirical success.
By Asha Barua, Sajad Khodadadian
arXiv:2608. 07301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study what can be recovered about the transition probabilities of a Markov decision process from optimal actions alone.
By Neal Batra
arXiv:2511. 19849v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recurrence objectives, where a target region must be visited infinitely often, are a fundamental class of specifications for Markov decision processes (MDPs) and form the core of $\omega$-regular and linear temporal logic (LTL) objectives.
By Dominik Wagner, Leon Witzman, Luke Ong
arXiv:2601. 18175v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A widely used technique for improving policies is success conditioning, in which one collects trajectories, identifies those that achieve a desired outcome, and updates the policy to imitate the actions taken along successful trajectories.
By Daniel Russo
arXiv:2602. 12963v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: An important question in the field of AI is the extent to which successful behaviour requires an internal representation of the world.
By Alfred Harwood, Jose Faustino, Alex Altair
arXiv:2607. 27132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An agent acting under partial observability must retain a recursively updateable statistic of history that restores the Markov property, but the smallest such statistic is generally unknown.
By Zuyuan Zhang, Yongshan Chen, Mahdi Imani, Tian Lan
arXiv:2509. 16586v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances have significantly improved our understanding of the sample complexity of learning in average-reward Markov decision processes (AMDPs) under the generative model.
By Yukuan Wei, Xudong Li, Lin F. Yang
arXiv:2603. 23461v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study reinforcement learning (RL) with linear function approximation in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) satisfying \emph{linear Bellman completeness} -- a fundamental setting where the Bellman backup of any linear value function remains linear.
By Zakaria Mhammedi, Alexander Rakhlin, Nneka Okolo
arXiv:2510. 02149v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Action-Triggered Sporadically Traceable Markov Decision Processes (ATST-MDPs), a reinforcement learning framework for partial observability in which full state observations occur stochastically at each step, with probability determined by the chosen action.
By Alexander Ryabchenko, Wenlong Mou
arXiv:2606. 31769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study policy optimization for online episodic tabular Markov decision processes with unknown transition kernels, aiming for best-of-both-worlds guarantees together with data-dependent regret bounds.
By Mingyi Li, Taira Tsuchiya, Kenji Yamanishi
arXiv:2608. 01151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we consider stochastic optimal control problems with infinite-horizon joint chance constraints.
By Francesco Cordiano, Kanghui He, Bart De Schutter
arXiv:2602. 09474v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study reinforcement learning in MDPs whose transition function is stochastic at most steps but may behave adversarially at a fixed subset of $\Lambda$ steps per episode.
By Ofir Schlisselberg, Tal Lancewicki, Yishay Mansour