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Abdullah Akgül
dblp:294/5457
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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2024
0000-0002-0489-9493ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 1 first-author · 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 · 49% Trustworthy machine learning · 41% Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 10% |
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 › offline reinforcement learning
model-based offline reinforcement learning |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Deterministic Uncertainty Propagation for Improved Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
offline reinforcement learning |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Deterministic Uncertainty Propagation for Improved Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › dynamic programming › value iteration
pessimistic value iteration |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Deterministic Uncertainty Propagation for Improved Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › uncertainty estimation
uncertainty propagation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Deterministic Uncertainty Propagation for Improved Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › uncertainty estimation › neural network uncertainty
evidential deep learning |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Evidential Turing Processes · ICLR 2022 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
uncertainty estimation |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Evidential Turing Processes · ICLR 2022 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning
moment matching |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Deterministic Uncertainty Propagation for Improved Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning · NeurIPS 2024 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › probabilistic inference › approximate inference
variational inference |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Deterministic Uncertainty Propagation for Improved Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning · NeurIPS 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
moment matching · 0.8deterministic uncertainty propagation · 0.8turing process · 0.6bayesian inference · 0.6
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Deterministic Uncertainty Propagation for Improved Model-Based Offline Reinforcement LearningabstractCurrent approaches to model-based offline reinforcement learning often incorporate uncertainty-based reward penalization to address the distributional shift problem. These approaches, commonly known as pessimistic value iteration, use Monte Carlo sampling to estimate the Bellman target to perform temporal difference-based policy evaluation. We find out that the randomness caused by this sampling step significantly delays convergence. We present a theoretical result demonstrating the strong dependency of suboptimality on the number of Monte Carlo samples taken per Bellman target calculation. Our main contribution is a deterministic approximation to the Bellman target that uses progressive moment matching, a method developed originally for deterministic variational inference. The resulting algorithm, which we call Moment Matching Offline Model-Based Policy Optimization (MOMBO), propagates the uncertainty of the next state through a nonlinear Q-network in a deterministic fashion by approximating the distributions of hidden layer activations by a normal distribution. We show that it is possible to provide tighter guarantees for the suboptimality of MOMBO than the existing Monte Carlo sampling approaches. We also observe MOMBO to converge faster than these approaches in a large set of benchmark tasks. Abdullah Akgül, Manuel Haußmann, Melih Kandemir |
NeurIPS | 1 |
| 2022 | Evidential Turing Processes
Melih Kandemir, Abdullah Akgül, Manuel Haußmann, Gozde Unal |
ICLR | 2 |