Reinforcement Learning
Common Concerns 2 Novelty
We thank all reviewers for their valuable comments. We address the concerns raised by them below. The idea of using imitation learning to make approximate decisions is not new. The author needs to provide a wall-clock time cost comparison of different methods. We will include them in the final verision.
FairDICE: Fairness-Driven Offline Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning
Kim, Woosung, Lee, Jinho, Lee, Jongmin, Lee, Byung-Jun
Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) aims to optimize policies in the presence of conflicting objectives, where linear scalarization is commonly used to reduce vector-valued returns into scalar signals. While effective for certain preferences, this approach cannot capture fairness-oriented goals such as Nash social welfare or max-min fairness, which require nonlinear and non-additive trade-offs. Although several online algorithms have been proposed for specific fairness objectives, a unified approach for optimizing nonlinear welfare criteria in the offline setting-where learning must proceed from a fixed dataset-remains unexplored. In this work, we present FairDICE, the first offline MORL framework that directly optimizes nonlinear welfare objective. FairDICE leverages distribution correction estimation to jointly account for welfare maximization and distributional regularization, enabling stable and sample-efficient learning without requiring explicit preference weights or exhaustive weight search. Across multiple offline benchmarks, FairDICE demonstrates strong fairness-aware performance compared to existing baselines.