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NeurIPS 2019 Optimization Foundations for Reinforcement Learning Workshop	default

Accepted Papers

We have received many high-quality submissions. Thanks to all the contributors for the supports.

Oral presentation

• Adaptive Trust Region Policy Optimization: Convergence and Faster Rates of regularized MDPs. Lior Shani, Yonathan Efroni, Shie Mannor
• Logarithmic Regret for Online Control. Naman Agarwal, Elad Hazan, Karan Singh
• Continuous Online Learning and New Insights to Online Imitation Learning. Jonathan Lee, Ching-An Cheng, Ken Goldberg, Byron Boots

Spotlight

• Geometric Insights into the Convergence of Nonlinear TD Learning. David Brandfonbrener, Joan Bruna
• Apprenticeship Learning via Frank-Wolfe. Tom Zahavy, Haim Kaplan, Alon Cohen, Yishay Mansour
• Empirical Likelihood for Contextual Bandits. Nikos Karampatziakis, John Langford, Paul Mineiro.
• Analysis of Q-Learning: Switching System Approach. Donghwan Lee, Niao He
• Solving Discounted Stochastic Two-Player Games with Near-Optimal Time and Sample Complexity. Aaron Sidford, Mengdi Wang, Lin Yang, Yinyu Ye
• Actor-Critic Provably Finds Nash Equilibria of Linear-Quadratic Mean-Field Games. Zuyue Fu, Zhuoran Yang, Yongxin Chen, Zhaoran Wang
• ALGAE: Policy Gradient from Arbitrary Experience. Ofir Nachum, Bo Dai, Ilya Kostrikov, Dale Schuurmans
• Doubly Robust Bias Reduction in Infinite Horizon Off-Policy Estimation. Ziyang Tang, Yihao Feng, Lihong Li, Denny Zhou, Qiang Liu
• Learning Reward Machines for Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning. Rodrigo A Toro Icarte, Ethan Waldie, Toryn Klassen, Richard Valenzano, Margarita Castro, Sheila A. McIlraith
• Is a Good Representation Sufficient for Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning?. Simon Du, Sham Kakade, Ruosong Wang, Lin Yang
• On Computation and Generalization of Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning. Minshuo Chen, Yizhou Wang, Tianyi Liu, Xingguo Li, Zhuoran Yang, Zhaoran Wang, Tuo Zhao
• A Distributional Analysis of Sampling-Based Reinforcement Learning Algorithms. Philip Amortila, Doina Precup, Prakash Panangaden, Marc G. Bellemare

Poster

• Kalman Optimization for Value Approximation. Shirli Di-Castro, Shie Mannor
• Hierarchical model-based policy optimization: from actions to action sequences and back. Daniel McNamee
• Improving Evolutionary Strategies With Past Descent Directions. Asier Mujika, Florian Meier, Marcelo Matheus Gauy, Angelika Steger
• ISL: Optimal Policy Learning With Optimal Exploration-Exploitation Trade-Off. Lucas C Cassano, Ali H Sayed
• Provably Convergent Off-Policy Actor-Critic with Function Approximation. Shangtong Zhang, Bo Liu, Hengshuai Yao, Shimon Whiteson
• Q-learning with UCB Exploration is Sample Efficient for Infinite-Horizon MDP. Kefan Dong, Yuanhao Wang, Xiaoyu Chen, Liwei Wang
• Adaptive Smoothing Path Integral Control. Dominik Thalmeier, Bert Kappen, Simone Totaro, Vicenç Gómez
• Data Efficient Training for Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Behavior Policy Sharing. Ge Liu, Heng-Tze Cheng, Rui Wu, Jing Wang, Jayiden Ooi, Ang Li, Sibon Li, Lihong Li, Craig Boutilier
• A Two Time-Scale Update Rule Ensuring Convergence of Episodic Reinforcement Learning Algorithms at the Example of RUDDER. Markus Holzleitner, José Arjona-Medina, Marius-Constantin Dinu, Sepp Hochreiter
• Distributional Reinforcement Learning for Energy-Based Sequential Models. Tetiana Parshakova, Jean-Marc Andreoli, Marc Dymetman
• Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning without Interference. Tianhe Yu, Saurabh Kumar, Abhishek Gupta, Karol Hausman, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn
• Toward Provably Unbiased Temporal-Difference Value Estimation. Roy Fox
• Provable Q-Iteration without Concentrability. Ming Yu, Zhuoran Yang, Mengdi Wang, Zhaoran Wang
• Faster saddle-point optimization for solving large-scale Markov decision processes. Joan Bas Serrano, Gergely Neu
• Approximate information state for partially observed systems. Jayakumar Subramanian, Aditya Mahajan
• Improved Upper and Lower Bounds for Policy and Strategy Iteration. Aaron Sidford, Mengdi Wang, Lin Yang, Yinyu Ye
• Reinforcement Learning in Feature Space: Matrix Bandit, Kernels, and Regret Bound. Lin Yang, Mengdi Wang
• Deterministic Bellman Residual Minimization. Ehsan Saleh, Nan Jiang,
• Reinforcement Learning with Langevin Dynamics. Parameswaran Kamalaruban, Doga Tekin, Paul Rolland, Volkan Cevher
• Provably Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation. Chi Jin, Zhuoran Yang, Zhaoran Wang, Michael Jordan
• On the Finite-Time Convergence of Actor-Critic Algorithm. Shuang Qiu, Zhuoran Yang, Jieping Ye, Zhaoran Wang
• Approximability Gap between Model-based and Model-free Algorithms in Continuous State Space. Kefan Dong, Yuping Luo, Tengyu Ma
• Entropy Regularization with Discounted Future State Distribution in Policy Gradient Methods. Riashat Islam, Raihan Seraj, Pierre-Luc Bacon, Doina Precup,
• Batch and Sequential Policy Optimization with Doubly Robust Objectives. Alex P Lewandowski, Dale Schuurmans
• A Single Time-scale Stochastic Approximation Method for Nested Stochastic Optimization. Saeed Ghadimi, Andrzej Ruszczynski, Mengdi Wang
• CAQL: Continuous Action Q-Learning. Yinlam Chow, Moonkyung Ryu, Craig Boutilier, Ross Anderson, Christian Tjandraatmadja
• The Gambler's Problem and Beyond. Baoxiang Wang, Shuai Li, Jiajin Li, Siu On
• Toward Understanding Catastrophic Interference in Online Reinforcement Learning. Vincent Liu, Hengshuai Yao, Martha White
• Optimistic Adaptive Gradient Methods. Xinyi Chen, Simon Du, Elad Hazan
• QNTRPO: Including Curvature in TRPO. Devesh K Jha, Arvind U Raghunathan, Diego Romeres
• Selectively Planning with Imperfect Models via Learned Error Signals. Muhammad Zaheer, Samuel Sokota, Erin Talvitie, Martha White
• A Stochastic Derivative Free Optimization Method with Momentum. Eduard Gorbunov, Adel Bibi, Ozan Sener, El Houcine Bergou, Peter Richtarik

• Trajectory-wise Control Variates for Variance Reduction in Policy Gradient Methods. Xinyan Yan, Ching-An Cheng, Byron Boots
• Analyzing the Variance of Policy Gradient Estimators for the Linear-Quadratic Regulator. James Preiss, Chen-Yu Wei, Sébastien Arnold, Marius Kloft
• Sample Efficient Policy Gradient Methods with Recursive Variance Reduction. Pan Xu, Xi Gao, Quanquan Gu
• A Lagrangian Method for Inverse Problems in Reinforcement Learning. Pierre-Luc Bacon, Florian T Schaefer, Clement Gehring, Animashree Anandkumar, Emma Brunskill
• Policy Continuation and Policy Evolution with Hindsight Inverse Dynamics. Hao Sun, Bo Dai, Zhizhong Li, Xiaotong Liu, Rui Xu, Dahua Lin, Bolei Zhou
• Observational Overfitting in Reinforcement Learning. Xingyou Song, YiDing Jiang, Yilun Du, Behnam Neyshabur
• Compatible features for Monotonic Policy Improvement. Marcin B Tomczak, Sergio Valcarcel Macua, Enrique Munoz De Cote, Peter Vrancx
• On the Convergence of Approximate and Regularized Policy Iteration Schemes. Elena Smirnova, Elvis Dohmatob
• An Asynchronous Multi-Agent Actor-Critic Algorithm for Distributed Reinforcement Learning. Yixuan Lin, Yuehan Luo, Wesley Suttle, Kaiqing Zhang, Zhuoran Yang, Zhaoran Wang, Tamer Basar, Romeil Sandhu, Ji Liu
• Revisit Policy Optimization in Matrix Form. Sitao Luan, Xiao-Wen Chang, Doina Precup
• A Finite Time Analysis of Temporal Difference Learning With Linear Function Approximation. Jalaj Bhandari, Daniel Russo
• Global Optimality Guarantees For Policy Gradient Methods. Jalaj Bhandari, Daniel Russo
• On the Sample Complexity of Actor-Critic for Reinforcement Learning. Harshat Kumar, Alec Koppel, Alejandro Ribeiro
• Adaptive Discretization for Episodic Reinforcement Learning in Metric Spaces. Siddhartha Banerjee, Sean Sinclair, Christina Lee Yu
• Fast multi-agent temporal-difference learning via homotopy stochastic primal-dual method. Dongsheng Ding, Xiaohan Wei, Zhuoran Yang, Zhaoran Wang, Mihailo Jovanovic
• Performance of Q-learning with Linear Function Approximation: Stability and Finite Time Analysis. Zaiwei Chen, Sheng Zhang, Thinh T Doan, Siva Theja Maguluri, John-Paul Clarke
• Feature-Based Q-Learning for Two-Player Stochastic Games. Zeyu Jia, Lin Yang, Mengdi Wang
• A Convergence Result for Regularized Actor-Critic Methods. Wesley Suttle, Zhuoran Yang, Kaiqing Zhang, Ji Liu
• Neural Policy Gradient Methods: Global Optimality and Rates of Convergence. Lingxiao Wang, Qi Cai, Zhuoran Yang
• All-Action Policy Gradient Methods: A Numerical Integration Approach. Benjamin Petit, Loren Amdahl-Culleton, Yao Liu, Jimmy Smith, Pierre-Luc Bacon
• On Connections between Constrained Optimization and Reinforcement Learning. Nino Vieillard, Olivier Pietquin, Matthieu Geist
• Worst-Case Regret Bound for Perturbation Based Exploration in Reinforcement Learning. Ziping Xu, Ambuj Tewari
• Generalized Policy Updates for Policy Optimization. Saurabh Kumar, Robert Dadashi, Zafarali Ahmed, Dale Schuurmans, Marc G. Bellemare
• Stochastic convex optimization for provably efficient apprenticeship learning. Angeliki Kamoutsi, Angeliki Kamoutsi, Goran Banjac, and John Lygeros
• Discounted Reinforcement Learning is Not an Optimization Problem. Abhishek Naik, Roshan Shariff, Niko Yasui, Richard Sutton