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# Safely Bridging Offline and Online Reinforcement Learning

@article{Xu2021SafelyBO,
title={Safely Bridging Offline and Online Reinforcement Learning},
author={Wanqiao Xu and Kan Xu and Hamsa Bastani and Osbert Bastani},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2021},
volume={abs/2110.13060}
}
• Published 25 October 2021
• Computer Science
• ArXiv
A key challenge to deploying reinforcement learning in practice is exploring safely. We propose a natural safety property—uniformly outperforming a conservative policy (adaptively estimated from all data observed thus far), up to a per-episode exploration budget. We then design an algorithm that uses a UCB reinforcement learning policy for exploration, but overrides it as needed to ensure safety with high probability. We experimentally validate our results on a sepsis treatment task…
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