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A Theoretical Justification for Asymmetric Actor-Critic Algorithms
Gaspard Lambrechts
Damien Ernst
Aditya Mahajan
2025-10-06
Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (published)
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A Theoretical Justification for Asymmetric Actor-Critic Algorithms
Gaspard Lambrechts
Damien Ernst
Aditya Mahajan
In reinforcement learning for partially observable environments, many successful algorithms have been developed within the asymmetric learni… (see more)ng paradigm. This paradigm leverages additional state information available at training time for faster learning. Although the proposed learning objectives are usually theoretically sound, these methods still lack a precise theoretical justification for their potential benefits. We propose such a justification for asymmetric actor-critic algorithms with linear function approximators by adapting a finite-time convergence analysis to this setting. The resulting finite-time bound reveals that the asymmetric critic eliminates error terms arising from aliasing in the agent state.
2025-10-06
Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (published)
proceedings.mlr.press