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Andrea Martinelli
dblp:224/8380
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2022
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 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
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
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › policy optimization
policy gradient |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | PAGE-PG: A Simple and Loopless Variance-Reduced Policy Gradient Method with Probabilistic Gradient Estimation · ICML 2022 |
Machine learning › Learning theory
sample complexity |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | 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 |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | 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 |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | 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
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | PAGE-PG: A Simple and Loopless Variance-Reduced Policy Gradient Method with Probabilistic Gradient EstimationabstractDespite 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 |
ICML | 3 |