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Main Author: Moustakides, George V.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13189
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  • When the underlying conditional density is known, conditional expectations can be computed analytically or numerically. When, however, such knowledge is not available and instead we are given a collection of training data, the goal of this work is to propose simple and purely data-driven means for estimating directly the desired conditional expectation. Because conditional expectations appear in the description of a number of stochastic optimization problems with the corresponding optimal solution satisfying a system of nonlinear equations, we extend our data-driven method to cover such cases as well. We test our methodology by applying it to Optimal Stopping and Optimal Action Policy in Reinforcement Learning.