Statistical Learning
Distributional Policy Evaluation: a Maximum Entropy approach to Representation Learning
In Distributional Reinforcement Learning (D-RL) [Bellemare et al., 2023], an agent aims to estimate Sutton and Barto, 2018], where the objective is to predict the expected return only. In Section 3, we answer this methodological question, showing that it is possible to reformulate Policy Evaluation in a distributional setting so that its performance index is explicitly intertwined with the representation of the (state or action) spaces.
Appendix of Joint Data-T ask Generation for Auxiliary Learning Hong Chen
We provide the derivation of the upper implicit gradient in eq. We summarize the whole DTG-AuxL algorithm in Algorithm 1, where the lower and upper optimization updates are conducted alternatingly. We use the batch stochastic gradient optimization for both the lower and upper update. STL: It is a natural baseline where we only train on the primary task. Equal: It is a multi-task learning method, where we assign an equal weight of 1.0 to the loss of each MAXL can be only applied to the classification problem.