arXiv Machine Learning By Changyu Chen, Xiting Wang, Yiqiao Jin, Victor Ye Dong, Li Dong, Jie Cao, Yi Liu, Rui Yan

Semi-Offline Reinforcement Learning for Optimized Text Generation

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arXiv:2306. 09712v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In reinforcement learning (RL), there are two major settings for interacting with the environment: online and offline.

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