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  "title": "Reproduction: Corruption-Tolerant Asynchronous Q-Learning with Near-Optimal Rates",
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    "title": "Reproduction: Corruption-Tolerant Asynchronous Q-Learning with Near-Optimal Rates",
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        "slug": "claim-1-theorem-2-rate",
        "title": "Theorem 2 shows Robust Async-Q achieves a finite-time convergence rate of O(1/√T), matching classical asynchronous Q-learning, plus an additive O(√ε) term where ε∈[0,1/2) is the fraction of adversarially corrupted rewards (Section 3.1).",
        "file": "pages/claim-1-theorem-2-rate/page.md",
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      },
      {
        "slug": "claim-2-theorem-3-lower-bound",
        "title": "Theorem 3 gives an information-theoretic lower bound of Ω(√ε), proving the additive corruption term in the upper bound is unavoidable (Section 4).",
        "file": "pages/claim-2-theorem-3-lower-bound/page.md",
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      },
      {
        "slug": "claim-3-theorem-4-reward-agnostic",
        "title": "Theorem 4 extends the guarantee to a reward-agnostic setting where the algorithm needs no prior knowledge of the reward distribution's bounds (Section 5.1).",
        "file": "pages/claim-3-theorem-4-reward-agnostic/page.md",
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      },
      {
        "slug": "claim-4-theorem-6-markovian",
        "title": "Theorem 6 extends the near-optimal finite-time rate to single-trajectory Markovian sampling with time-correlated data, with the bound inflated by the chain's mixing time (Section 6).",
        "file": "pages/claim-4-theorem-6-markovian/page.md",
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      },
      {
        "slug": "claim-5-algorithm-1",
        "title": "Algorithm 1 (Robust Async-Q) combines a trimmed-mean reward estimator with an adaptive threshold G_t to filter corrupted rewards before the standard Q-learning update, requiring only knowledge of the corruption fraction ε and minimum state-action visitation probability λ_min (Algorithm 1, Assumption 1).",
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      },
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        "slug": "conclusion",
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