Christos Dimitrakakis

Near-optimal Optimistic Reinforcement Learning using Empirical Bernstein Inequalities

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

We study model-based reinforcement learning in an unknown finite communicating Markov decision process. We propose a simple algorithm that leverages a variance based confidence interval. We show that the proposed algorithm, UCRL-V, achieves the optimal …

Privacy of Real-Time Pricing in Smart Grid

2019

Installing smart meters to publish real-time electricity rates has been controversial while it might lead to privacy concerns. Dispatched rates include fine-grained data on aggregate electricity consumption in a zone and could potentially be used …