What is offline RL and why does it matter?
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- Learn policy from fixed dataset of (s, a, r, s') collected by some behavior policy — NO env interaction during training.
- Motivation: (1) real environments too expensive / risky to explore (healthcare, autonomous, industrial).
- (2) Leverage huge existing logs (recommendation clicks, robot demos, dialog logs).
- (3) Safer than online.
- Foundation of practical industrial RL.
- D4RL is standard benchmark suite.
Check yourself — multiple choice
- Same as online
- Learn from fixed dataset with no env interaction; motivation: expensive / risky exploration (health, autonomy, industry) + huge existing logs → safer; D4RL benchmark
- Random
- Not real
Offline RL: fixed dataset, no interaction; industrial / safety-critical.
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