Off-policy evaluation in Reinforcement Learning using Linear Regression
STCS Student Seminar
Speaker:
Anirban Bhattacharjee
Organiser:
Ashutosh Shankar
Date:
Friday, 11 Dec 2020, 17:15 to 18:15
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Abstract:
In Reinforcement Learning, one often needs to evaluate a given policy using rewards observed by following another policy. This is called off-policy evaluation in Learning Theory parlance. The traditional methods for off-policy evaluation involve importance sampling, which comes with certain drawbacks. We shall look at these drawbacks and how linear regression may be used instead to overcome the same.