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Sample Efficient Actor-Critic with Experience Replay

Machine Learning 2017-07-11 v2

Abstract

This paper presents an actor-critic deep reinforcement learning agent with experience replay that is stable, sample efficient, and performs remarkably well on challenging environments, including the discrete 57-game Atari domain and several continuous control problems. To achieve this, the paper introduces several innovations, including truncated importance sampling with bias correction, stochastic dueling network architectures, and a new trust region policy optimization method.

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@article{arxiv.1611.01224,
  title  = {Sample Efficient Actor-Critic with Experience Replay},
  author = {Ziyu Wang and Victor Bapst and Nicolas Heess and Volodymyr Mnih and Remi Munos and Koray Kavukcuoglu and Nando de Freitas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01224},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

20 pages. Prepared for ICLR 2017

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