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Fall 2020

The Mean-Squared Error of Double Q-Learning

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020, 10:00 am10:30 am

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Speaker: 

R. Srikant (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

We establish a theoretical comparison between the asymptotic mean-squared error of Double Q-learning and Q-learning. Using prior work on the asymptotic mean-squared error of linear stochastic approximation based on Lyapunov equations, we show that the asymptotic mean-squared error of Double Q-learning is exactly equal to that of Q-learning if Double Q-learning uses twice the learning rate of Q-learning and outputs the average of its two estimators. We also present some practical implications of this theoretical observation using simulations.

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