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Andrea Martinelli

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2022
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Optimization for machine learning · 50% Reinforcement learning · 25% Learning theory · 25%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › policy optimization
policy gradient
0.612022
PAGE-PG: A Simple and Loopless Variance-Reduced Policy Gradient Method with Probabilistic Gradient Estimation · ICML 2022
Machine learning › Learning theory
sample complexity
0.612022
PAGE-PG: A Simple and Loopless Variance-Reduced Policy Gradient Method with Probabilistic Gradient Estimation · ICML 2022
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning › gradient estimation
stochastic gradient estimation
0.612022
PAGE-PG: A Simple and Loopless Variance-Reduced Policy Gradient Method with Probabilistic Gradient Estimation · ICML 2022
Machine learning › Optimization for machine learning
variance reduction
0.612022
PAGE-PG: A Simple and Loopless Variance-Reduced Policy Gradient Method with Probabilistic Gradient Estimation · ICML 2022

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

probabilistic gradient estimator · 0.6importance sampling · 0.6PAGE estimator · 0.6
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2022 PAGE-PG: A Simple and Loopless Variance-Reduced Policy Gradient Method with Probabilistic Gradient Estimation
abstract
Despite their success, policy gradient methods suffer from high variance of the gradient estimator, which can result in unsatisfactory sample complexity. Recently, numerous variance-reduced extensions of policy gradient methods with provably better sample complexity and competitive numerical performance have been proposed. After a compact survey on some of the main variance-reduced REINFORCE-type methods, we propose ProbAbilistic Gradient Estimation for Policy Gradient (PAGE-PG), a novel loopless variance-reduced policy gradient method based on a probabilistic switch between two types of update. Our method is inspired by the PAGE estimator for supervised learning and leverages importance sampling to obtain an unbiased gradient estimator. We show that PAGE-PG enjoys a $\mathcal{O}\left( \epsilon^{-3} \right)$ average sample complexity to reach an $\epsilon$-stationary solution, which matches the sample complexity of its most competitive counterparts under the same setting. A numerical evaluation confirms the competitive performance of our method on classical control tasks.
Matilde Gargiani, Andrea Zanelli, Andrea Martinelli, Tyler H. Summers, John Lygeros
ICML3