Online
Amii is proud to support our province's growing AI community. The RL Theory Seminars are hosted independently by researchers: Gergely Neu, Ciara Pike-Burke, and Amii Fellow Csaba Szepesvári.
Speaker: Marc Abeille (Criteo)
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06482
Authors: Marc Abeille, Alessandro Lazaric
Abstract: We study the exploration-exploitation dilemma in the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) setting. Inspired by the extended value iteration algorithm used in optimistic algorithms for finite MDPs, we propose to relax the optimistic optimization of OFU-LQ and cast it into a constrained extended LQR problem, where an additional control variable implicitly selects the system dynamics within a confidence interval. We then move to the corresponding Lagrangian formulation for which we prove strong duality. As a result, we show that an ϵ-optimistic controller can be computed efficiently by solving at most O(log(1/ϵ)) Riccati equations. Finally, we prove that relaxing the original OFU problem does not impact the learning performance, thus recovering the O(√T) regret of OFU-LQ. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first computationally efficient confidence-based algorithm for LQR with worst-case optimal regret guarantees.
Looking to build AI capacity? Need a speaker at your event?
