Paper ID: 2406.14753

A General Control-Theoretic Approach for Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Algorithms

Weiqin Chen, Mark S. Squillante, Chai Wah Wu, Santiago Paternain

We devise a control-theoretic reinforcement learning approach to support direct learning of the optimal policy. We establish theoretical properties of our approach and derive an algorithm based on a specific instance of this approach. Our empirical results demonstrate the significant benefits of our approach.

Submitted: Jun 20, 2024