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New STITCH-OPE framework uses guided diffusion for off-policy evaluation

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Researchers have developed STITCH-OPE, a novel framework for off-policy evaluation (OPE) that utilizes guided diffusion models. This method is designed to handle high-dimensional, long-horizon problems in fields like robotics and healthcare, where direct environmental interaction is impractical. STITCH-OPE improves variance reduction by subtracting the behavior policy's score during guidance and generates extended trajectories by stitching partial ones, offering significant improvements over existing OPE techniques on benchmark datasets. AI

IMPACT This new framework for off-policy evaluation could enable more robust AI development in robotics and healthcare by improving the accuracy of performance estimates from offline data.

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New STITCH-OPE framework uses guided diffusion for off-policy evaluation

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Hossein Goli, Michael Gimelfarb, Nathan Samuel de Lara, Haruki Nishimura, Masha Itkina, Florian Shkurti ·

    STITCH-OPE: Trajectory Stitching with Guided Diffusion for Off-Policy Evaluation

    arXiv:2505.20781v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Off-policy evaluation (OPE) estimates the performance of a target policy using offline data collected from a behavior policy, and is crucial in domains such as robotics or healthcare where direct interaction with the envir…

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