Balanced Off-Policy Evaluation in General Action Spaces
Balanced Off-Policy Evaluation in General Action Spaces
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一般行动空间中的平衡非政策评估
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2019
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通讯作者:
Drew Dimmery
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作者:
A. Sondhi;D. Arbour;Drew Dimmery
Estimation of importance sampling weights for off-policy evaluation of contextual bandits often results in imbalance - a mismatch between the desired and the actual distribution of state-action pairs after weighting. In this work we present balanced off-policy evaluation (B-OPE), a generic method for estimating weights which minimize this imbalance. Estimation of these weights reduces to a binary classification problem regardless of action type. We show that minimizing the risk of the classifier implies minimization of imbalance to the desired counterfactual distribution of state-action pairs. The classifier loss is tied to the error of the off-policy estimate, allowing for easy tuning of hyperparameters. We provide experimental evidence that B-OPE improves weighting-based approaches for offline policy evaluation in both discrete and continuous action spaces.
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2018
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Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS
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Kallus, Nathan;Zhou, Angela
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Zhou, Angela
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2018
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Advances in neural information processing systems
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Kallus, Nathan
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Kallus, Nathan
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10.1214/07-sts227b
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2007-01-01
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Statistical science : a review journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
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Tsiatis, Anastasios A;Davidian, Marie
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Davidian, Marie