Policy Zooming: Adaptive Discretization-based Infinite-Horizon Average-Reward Reinforcement Learning

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Main Authors:	Kar, Avik, Singh, Rahul
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2024
Subjects:	Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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