Beyond State-Wise Mirror Descent: Offline Policy Optimization with Parametric Policies

arXiv:2602.23811 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-02-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-02-27

Updated: 2026-10-09

Terminology

• Action Space — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes
• Theoretical Guarantees — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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