An Optimal Tightness Bound for the Simulation Lemma

Autor:	Lobel, Sam, Parr, Ronald
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	Computer Science - Machine Learning
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	We present a bound for value-prediction error with respect to model misspecification that is tight, including constant factors. This is a direct improvement of the "simulation lemma," a foundational result in reinforcement learning. We demonstrate that existing bounds are quite loose, becoming vacuous for large discount factors, due to the suboptimal treatment of compounding probability errors. By carefully considering this quantity on its own, instead of as a subcomponent of value error, we derive a bound that is sub-linear with respect to transition function misspecification. We then demonstrate broader applicability of this technique, improving a similar bound in the related subfield of hierarchical abstraction. Comment: 10 page (+3 appendix). Published as a conference paper at RLC 2024
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16249 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv