We introduce a new algorithm for reinforcement learning called Maximum aposteriori Policy Optimisation (MPO) based on coordinate ascent on a relative entropy objective. We show that several existing methods can directly be related to our derivation. We develop two off-policy algorithms and demonstrate that they are competitive with the state-of-the-art in deep reinforcement learning. In particular, for continuous control, our method outperforms existing methods with respect to sample efficiency, premature convergence and robustness to hyperparameter settings while achieving similar or better final performance.
@article{arxiv.1806.06920,
title = {Maximum a Posteriori Policy Optimisation},
author = {Abbas Abdolmaleki and Jost Tobias Springenberg and Yuval Tassa and Remi Munos and Nicolas Heess and Martin Riedmiller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.06920},
year = {2018}
}