Sequential decision-making in real-world applications often involves uncertainty about the environment's model. Uncertain Markov decision processes (UMDPs) represent the possible environments as a set of MDPs with shared states and actions but potentially different transition probabilities and rewards.
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:2601. 23229v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Markov decision processes (MDPs) are a fundamental model in sequential decision making.
By Ali Asadi, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Ehsan Goharshady, Mehrdad Karrabi, Alipasha Montaseri, Carlo Pagano
arXiv:2603. 03480v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study reinforcement learning with delayed state observation, where the agent observes the current state after some random number of time steps.
By Harin Lee, Kevin Jamieson
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: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:2606. 27448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies the problem of regret minimization in Markovian bandits with \emph{non-observable states} and possibly \emph{constrained} decision epochs.
By Thomas Hira, Victor Boone, Urtzi Ayesta, Ina Maria Verloop
arXiv:2608. 17929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust Markov decision processes optimize one policy against a set of plausible transition functions.
By Kasper Engelen, Sebastian Junges, Guillermo A. P\'{e}rez, Marnix Suilen
Robust Markov decision processes optimize one policy against a set of plausible transition functions. This can be conservative when the unknown dynamics are fixed and become partially identifiable after deployment.
arXiv:2606. 02363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study sequential decision-making in partially observable environments against strategic, adaptive opponents, modeled as partially observable Markov games (POMGs).
By Raman Arora
arXiv:2607. 17823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning is a cornerstone technique for modern large reasoning models.
By Riccardo Poiani, Martino Bernasconi, Andrea Celli
arXiv:2602. 01903v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work studies online episodic tabular Markov decision processes (MDPs) with known transitions and develops best-of-both-worlds algorithms that achieve refined data-dependent regret bounds in the adversarial regime and variance-dependent regret bounds in the stochastic regime.
By Mingyi Li, Taira Tsuchiya, Kenji Yamanishi