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On the Convergence Theory of Debiased Model-Agnostic Meta-Reinforcement Learning

Neural Information Processing Systems

We consider Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) methods for Reinforcement Learning (RL) problems, where the goal is to find a policy using data from several tasks represented by Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) that can be updated by one step of stochastic policy gradient for the realized MDP. In particular, using stochastic gradients in MAML update steps is crucial for RL problems since computation of exact gradients requires access to a large number of possible trajectories. For this formulation, we propose a variant of the MAML method, named Stochastic Gradient Meta-Reinforcement Learning (SG-MRL), and study its convergence properties. We derive the iteration and sample complexity of SGMRL to find an -first-order stationary point, which, to the best of our knowledge, provides the first convergence guarantee for model-agnostic meta-reinforcement learning algorithms. We further show how our results extend to the case where more than one step of stochastic policy gradient method is used at test time. Finally, we empirically compare SG-MRL and MAML in several deep RL environments.







35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2021 . Corresponding author https

Neural Information Processing Systems

We demonstrate our framework's utility by proving and methods that are guaranteed to be defended against deception, given bounded sistent conclusions about performance. Our framework enables us to prove EHPO put forth a logical framework to capture its semantics and how it can lead to inconrigorous. We call this process epistemic hyperparameter optimization (EHPO), and deception, the process of drawing conclusions from HPO should be made more provide a theoretical complement to this prior work, arguing that, to avoid such the opposite. In short, the way we choose hyperparameters can deceive us. We yield the conclusion that J outperforms K, whereas searching another can entail research.


Mixture Weight Estimation and Model Prediction in Multi-source Multi-target Domain Adaptation

Neural Information Processing Systems

We consider the problem of learning a model from multiple heterogeneous sources with the goal of performing well on a new target distribution. The goal of learner is to mix these data sources in a target-distribution aware way and simultaneously minimize the empirical risk on the mixed source. The literature has made some tangible advancements in establishing theory of learning on mixture domain. However, there are still two unsolved problems. Firstly, how to estimate the optimal mixture of sources, given a target domain; Secondly, when there are numerous target domains, how to solve empirical risk minimization (ERM) for each target using possibly unique mixture of data sources in a computationally efficient manner.