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Robin Kothari

2 accepted papers

2021

Near-Optimal Lower Bounds For Convex Optimization For All Orders of Smoothness

NeurIPS 2021spotlight

We study the complexity of optimizing highly smooth convex functions. For a positive integer $p$, we want to find an $\epsilon$-approximate minimum of a convex function $f$, given oracle access to the function and its first $p$ derivatives, assuming that the $p$th derivative of $f$ is Lipschitz. R…

Cited by 18SourcePDFScholar
2021

Quantum algorithms for reinforcement learning with a generative model

ICML 2021spotlight

Reinforcement learning studies how an agent should interact with an environment to maximize its cumulative reward. A standard way to study this question abstractly is to ask how many samples an agent needs from the environment to learn an optimal policy for a $\gamma$-discounted Markov decision proc…

Cited by 38SourcePDFScholar