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New FQE and FQI methods bypass Bellman completeness for stability

Researchers have developed new methods for Fitted Q-Evaluation (FQE) and soft Fitted Q-Iteration (soft FQI) that do not require Bellman completeness, a condition often unmet with function approximation. The proposed techniques, stationary-weighted FQE and stationary-reweighted soft FQI, address instability issues by reweighting regression steps to align with the target policy's stationary distribution. These approaches aim to improve stability and reduce value error in off-policy evaluation for reinforcement learning. AI

IMPACT Enhances theoretical foundations for off-policy evaluation in reinforcement learning, potentially improving model training and decision-making in complex environments.

RANK_REASON Two arXiv papers introduce novel theoretical methods for reinforcement learning evaluation.

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New FQE and FQI methods bypass Bellman completeness for stability

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Lars van der Laan, Nathan Kallus ·

    Fitted $Q$ Evaluation Without Bellman Completeness via Stationary Weighting

    arXiv:2512.23805v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fitted $Q$-evaluation (FQE) is a standard regression-based tool for off-policy evaluation, but existing stability guarantees often rely on Bellman completeness, a strong closure condition that can fail under function approximati…

  2. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Lars van der Laan, Nathan Kallus ·

    Stationary Reweighting Yields Local Convergence of Soft Fitted Q-Iteration

    arXiv:2512.23927v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fitted $Q$-iteration (FQI) and soft FQI are widely used value-based methods for offline reinforcement learning, but their standard stability guarantees often depend on Bellman completeness, a strong closure condition that can fa…