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Poster

Provably Efficient Iterated CVaR Reinforcement Learning with Function Approximation and Human Feedback

Yu Chen · Yihan Du · Pihe Hu · Siwei Wang · Desheng Wu · Longbo Huang

Halle B #197
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Wed 8 May 7:30 a.m. PDT — 9:30 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

Risk-sensitive reinforcement learning (RL) aims to optimize policies that balance the expected reward and risk. In this paper, we present a novel risk-sensitive RL framework that employs an Iterated Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) objective under both linear and general function approximations, enriched by human feedback. These new formulations provide a principled way to guarantee safety in each decision making step throughout the control process. Moreover, integrating human feedback into risk-sensitive RL framework bridges the gap between algorithmic decision-making and human participation, allowing us to also guarantee safety for human-in-the-loop systems. We propose provably sample-efficient algorithms for this Iterated CVaR RL and provide rigorous theoretical analysis. Furthermore, we establish a matching lower bound to corroborate the optimality of our algorithms in a linear context.

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