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New federated RL algorithm minimizes communication costs

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Researchers have introduced Fed-LSVI, a novel federated algorithm designed for online reinforcement learning with linear function approximation. This algorithm addresses the communication and privacy challenges inherent in federated settings by enabling agents to share only compressed sufficient statistics, rather than raw trajectories. Fed-LSVI achieves a regret bound comparable to existing multi-agent methods while significantly reducing communication costs to a logarithmic dependence on the number of episodes. AI

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New federated RL algorithm minimizes communication costs

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Zihang Liang, Haochen Zhang, Lingzhou Xue ·

    Provably Efficient Federated Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation and Logarithmic Communication Cost

    arXiv:2609.00193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study federated online reinforcement learning with linear function approximation. While recent multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithms achieve strong regret guarantees, they typically require sharing raw trajectories. This …

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