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Yohei Hosoe
dblp:21/11046
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0002-5659-1060ORCID · verified
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Reinforcement learning · 85% Learning theory · 15% |
Topics — the 8 heaviest of 8, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › markov decision process
constrained markov decision process |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Near-Optimal Policy Identification in Robust Constrained Markov Decision Processes via Epigraph Form · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
constrained reinforcement learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Provably Efficient RL under Episode-Wise Safety in Constrained MDPs with Linear Function Approximation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
policy optimization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Near-Optimal Policy Identification in Robust Constrained Markov Decision Processes via Epigraph Form · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Learning theory › online learning
regret bounds |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Provably Efficient RL under Episode-Wise Safety in Constrained MDPs with Linear Function Approximation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
reinforcement learning theory |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Provably Efficient RL under Episode-Wise Safety in Constrained MDPs with Linear Function Approximation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
robust reinforcement learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Near-Optimal Policy Identification in Robust Constrained Markov Decision Processes via Epigraph Form · ICLR 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › function approximation
linear function approximation |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Provably Efficient RL under Episode-Wise Safety in Constrained MDPs with Linear Function Approximation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
reinforcement learning with function approximation |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Provably Efficient RL under Episode-Wise Safety in Constrained MDPs with Linear Function Approximation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
policy gradient · 0.9optimism-based exploration · 0.9linear MDP · 0.9epigraph form · 0.9bisection search · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Near-Optimal Policy Identification in Robust Constrained Markov Decision Processes via Epigraph FormabstractDesigning a safe policy for uncertain environments is crucial in real-world control systems. However, this challenge remains inadequately addressed within the Markov decision process (MDP) framework. This paper presents the first algorithm guaranteed to identify a near-optimal policy in a robust constrained MDP (RCMDP), where an optimal policy minimizes cumulative cost while satisfying constraints in the worst-case scenario across a set of environments. We first prove that the conventional policy gradient approach to the Lagrangian max-min formulation can become trapped in suboptimal solutions. This occurs when its inner minimization encounters a sum of conflicting gradients from the objective and constraint functions. To address this, we leverage the epigraph form of the RCMDP problem, which resolves the conflict by selecting a single gradient from either the objective or the constraints. Building on the epigraph form, we propose a bisection search algorithm with a policy gradient subroutine and prove that it identifies an $\varepsilon$-optimal policy in an RCMDP with $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(\varepsilon^{-4})$ robust policy evaluations. Toshinori Kitamura, Tadashi Kozuno, Wataru Kumagai, Kenta Hoshino, Yohei Hosoe, Kazumi Kasaura, Masashi Hamaya, Paavo Parmas, Yutaka Matsuo |
ICLR | 5 |
| 2025 | Provably Efficient RL under Episode-Wise Safety in Constrained MDPs with Linear Function ApproximationabstractWe study the reinforcement learning (RL) problem in a constrained Markov decision process (CMDP), where an agent explores the environment to maximize the expected cumulative reward while satisfying a single constraint on the expected total utility value in every episode. While this problem is well understood in the tabular setting, theoretical results for function approximation remain scarce. This paper closes the gap by proposing an RL algorithm for linear CMDPs that achieves $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(\sqrt{K})$ regret with an episode-wise zero-violation guarantee. Furthermore, our method is computationally efficient, scaling polynomially with problem-dependent parameters while remaining independent of the state space size. Our results significantly improve upon recent linear CMDP algorithms, which either violate the constraint or incur exponential computational costs. Toshinori Kitamura, Arnob Ghosh, Tadashi Kozuno, Wataru Kumagai, Kazumi Kasaura, Kenta Hoshino, Yohei Hosoe, Yutaka Matsuo |
NeurIPS | 7 |