Study non-asymptotic BPI guarantees for online RL.
problem Identify optimal policy in MDP with high confidence.
method Non-asymptotic sample complexity guarantees for NaS algorithm.
result Sample complexity depends on MDP connectivity and curvature.
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Proposes proactive bed requests to reduce ED boarding and patient wait times.
problem Reduces ED boarding and patient wait times by proactively requesting inpatient beds.
method Formulates as a Markov decision process, uses predictions of admission probability and time to disposition to guide bed requests.
result Proactive aggregate bed requests can reduce boarding times by 30-70% and length of stay by 6-15%.
NeuralChaos efficiently approximates complex stochastic processes.
problem Representing and computing square-integrable predictable processes over time.
method Introduces NeuralChaos, a neural operator architecture for -valued predictable processes.
result NeuralChaos achieves best -term chaoslet approximation rates and is dense in .
DAGR improves navigation by refining goal representations conditioned on the current state.
problem Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning lacks state awareness, leading to inefficient policy recovery.
method DAGR refines static goal embeddings into state-conditioned ones using gated cross-attention with a state-goal discrepancy map.
result DAGR improves navigation tasks on OGBench, matching or outperforming base methods.
Develops a new reinforcement learning framework for complex control problems.
problem Continuous-time extended mean field control with deterministic policies.
method Model-free sensitivity formula, deterministic policy gradient, local value and advantage-rate representations.
result Demonstrates efficiency, stability, and robustness in solving complex control problems.
DQN outperforms static policies in a dynamic fee environment for automated market makers.
problem How automated market makers (AMMs) perform under dynamic fees is unknown.
method Constructed a closed-loop simulator with dynamic fees, noise flow, and arbitrage.
result A small DQN policy outperforms static policies in a dynamic fee environment.
This paper improves reinforcement learning by estimating return distributions using quantiles.
problem Improving reinforcement learning by estimating return distributions.
method Quantile-based distributional reinforcement learning, using quantile-projected distributional Bellman equations.
result The quantile-based approach achieves optimal sample efficiency and asymptotic efficiency.
This paper improves reinforcement learning by estimating return distributions using quantiles.
problem Improving reinforcement learning by estimating return distributions.
method The paper uses quantile-based distributional reinforcement learning to characterize return distributions.
result The quantile-based approach achieves optimal sample efficiency and asymptotic efficiency.
This paper identifies drift Lipschitz budget K as key to diffusion policy expressivity and statistical trade-offs.
problem Understanding and maximizing the expressivity of diffusion policies while managing statistical limitations.
method Identifying drift Lipschitz budget K as central, quantifying expressivity and statistical behavior, proving lower bounds, and providing practical implementation guidelines.
result Balancing expressivity and statistical complexity yields a finite-sample performance gap, with rates depending on sample size and drift type.
Survey of mathematical foundations for reinforcement learning.
problem Design and analysis of modern reinforcement learning algorithms.
method Organizes mathematical structures from probability, optimization, and operator theory.
result Unified mathematical entry point for researchers in various fields.
EHR-MPC optimizes sepsis treatment using digital twins and inference-time control.
problem Optimal sepsis treatment policies are contested and difficult to adapt during inference.
method EHR-MPC decouples learning patient dynamics from treatment optimization, enabling inference-time control over learned digital twins.
result EHR-MPC achieves comparable off-policy performance and improved simulation performance compared to RL baselines.
FORE evaluates occupancy ratios without requiring Bellman completeness.
problem Offline reinforcement learning occupancy ratio estimation.
method Fitted occupancy-ratio evaluation (FORE) using adjoint Bellman recursion.
result FORE achieves convergence in KL without Bellman completeness.
TREK uses distillation to help students solve hard problems.
problem Stalled progress on hard prompts when current policy lacks useful reasoning trajectories.
method TREK combines distillation and reinforcement learning to expand student support.
result TREK significantly improves student performance on mathematical reasoning and agentic tasks.
LF-IBIS learns optimal policies online without explicit likelihood.
problem Bayesian RL challenges due to intractable likelihood functions.
method Combines ABC with IBIS for online belief updates.
result Approximates posterior distributions for policies and parameters.
Active-GRPO improves molecular optimization by actively deciding when to imitate or self-improve.
problem Training robust and efficient molecular optimization models with large language models.
method Active-GRPO combines imitation and reinforcement learning, upgrading references and policies dynamically.
result Improves molecular optimization performance, achieving statistically significant gains.
Transforming sparse outcomes into dense process rewards for efficient reinforcement learning.
problem Training RL policies to maximize sparse outcomes.
method Incentivizing policy matching state-action visitations of successful episodes.
result Significantly faster RL finetuning performance.