Episode Details

Nan Jiang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Illinois.  He was a Postdoc Microsoft Research, and did his PhD at University of Michigan under Professor Satinder Singh. 

Featured References 

• Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Algorithms
  Alekh Agarwal Nan Jiang Sham M. Kakade 

• Model-based RL in Contextual Decision Processes: PAC bounds and Exponential Improvements over Model-free Approaches
  Wen Sun, Nan Jiang, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Alekh Agarwal, John Langford 

• Information-Theoretic Considerations in Batch Reinforcement Learning
  Jinglin Chen, Nan Jiang 

 
Additional References 

• Towards a Unified Theory of State Abstraction for MDPs, Lihong Li, Thomas J. Walsh, Michael L. Littman  
• Doubly Robust Off-policy Value Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning, Nan Jiang, Lihong Li 
• Minimax Confidence Interval for Off-Policy Evaluation and Policy Optimization, Nan Jiang, Jiawei Huang 
• Empirical Study of Off-Policy Policy Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning, Cameron Voloshin, Hoang M. Le, Nan Jiang, Yisong Yue 

Errata 

• [Robin] I misspoke when I said in domain randomization we want the agent to "ignore" domain parameters.  What I should have said is, we want the agent to perform well within some range of domain parameters, it should be robust with respect to domain parameters.