Online IL overcomes an information-theoretic bottleneck that offline IL faces in non-realizable settings even at horizon 1, under a new structural characterization of reward-relative misspecification.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.07453 , year=
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When Does Online Imitation Learning Help in LLM Post-Training? The Role of (Non-)Realizability Beyond Horizon
Online IL overcomes an information-theoretic bottleneck that offline IL faces in non-realizable settings even at horizon 1, under a new structural characterization of reward-relative misspecification.
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Fast Rates for Offline Contextual Bandits with Forward-KL Regularization under Single-Policy Concentrability
The paper establishes the first tilde O(epsilon^{-1}) upper bounds and matching lower bounds for forward-KL-regularized offline contextual bandits under single-policy concentrability in both tabular and general function approximation settings.