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Variational Deep Q Network

Machine Learning 2017-12-01 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

We propose a framework that directly tackles the probability distribution of the value function parameters in Deep Q Network (DQN), with powerful variational inference subroutines to approximate the posterior of the parameters. We will establish the equivalence between our proposed surrogate objective and variational inference loss. Our new algorithm achieves efficient exploration and performs well on large scale chain Markov Decision Process (MDP).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1711.11225,
  title  = {Variational Deep Q Network},
  author = {Yunhao Tang and Alp Kucukelbir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.11225},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

12 pages, 5 figures, Second workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning (NIPS 2017)

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