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FOCS 2020 tutorial on the Theoretical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning

Alekh Agarwal, Akshay Krishnamurthy, and John Langford

Overview

This is a tutorial on the theoretical foundations of reinforcement learning covering many new developments over the last half-decade which substantially deepen our understanding of what is possible and why. In addition, we cover various important open problems. The tutorial has 3 key parts: The information theory of reinforcement learning, optimization/gradient descent in reinforcement learning, and latent state discovery.

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