Nonparametric Variance-Penalized Actor-Critic: Statistical Inference for Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.14327 · cs.LG, stat.ML · Submitted 2026-09-13 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, stat.ML

Submitted: 2026-09-13

Updated: 2026-09-13

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Terminology

• Actor — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Q-learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes

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