Thompson Sampling is Asymptotically Optimal in General Environments

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We discuss a variant of Thompson sampling for nonparametric reinforcement learning in a countable classes of general stochastic environments.

• These environments can be non-Markov, non-ergodic, and partially observable.
• We show that Thompson sampling learns the environment class in the sense that (1) asymptotically its value converges to the optimal value in mean and (2) given a recoverability assumption regret is sublinear.