Online regret bounds for Markov decision processes with deterministic transitions

  • Authors:
  • Ronald Ortner

  • Affiliations:
  • Department Mathematik und Informationstechnologie, Montanuniversität Leoben, A-8700 Leoben, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We consider an upper confidence bound algorithm for learning in Markov decision processes with deterministic transitions. For this algorithm we derive upper bounds on the online regret with respect to an (@e-)optimal policy that are logarithmic in the number of steps taken. We also present a corresponding lower bound. As an application, multi-armed bandits with switching cost are considered.