Is Q-Learning Provably Efficient? An Extended Analysis

09/22/2020
by   Kushagra Rastogi, et al.
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This work extends the analysis of the theoretical results presented within the paper Is Q-Learning Provably Efficient? by Jin et al. We include a survey of related research to contextualize the need for strengthening the theoretical guarantees related to perhaps the most important threads of model-free reinforcement learning. We also expound upon the reasoning used in the proofs to highlight the critical steps leading to the main result showing that Q-learning with UCB exploration achieves a sample efficiency that matches the optimal regret that can be achieved by any model-based approach.

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