Policy Gradient Methods for Distortion Risk Measures

9 Jul 2021  ·  Nithia Vijayan, Prashanth L. A ·

We propose policy gradient algorithms which learn risk-sensitive policies in a reinforcement learning (RL) framework. Our proposed algorithms maximize the distortion risk measure (DRM) of the cumulative reward in an episodic Markov decision process in on-policy and off-policy RL settings, respectively. We derive a variant of the policy gradient theorem that caters to the DRM objective, and integrate it with a likelihood ratio-based gradient estimation scheme. We derive non-asymptotic bounds that establish the convergence of our proposed algorithms to an approximate stationary point of the DRM objective.

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