A Concentration Bound for Two-Timescale Actor-Critic Algorithm

arXiv:2609.29117 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Terminology

• Actor — 72× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Sample Complexity — 4× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Action Space — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Convergence Guarantees — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Non-asymptotic Analysis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Q-learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes

Sources

• Two-Timescale Critic-Actor for Average Reward MDPs with Function Approximation

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