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Mean Actor Critic

2017-09-01 · Cameron Allen, Kavosh Asadi, Melrose Roderick, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, George Konidaris, Michael Littman

We propose a new algorithm, Mean Actor-Critic (MAC), for discrete-action continuous-state reinforcement learning. MAC is a policy gradient algorithm that uses the agent's explicit representation of all action values to estimate the gradient of the policy, rather than using only the actions that were actually executed. We prove that this approach reduces variance in the policy gradient estimate relative to traditional actor-critic methods. We show empirical results on two control domains and on six Atari games, where MAC is competitive with state-of-the-art policy search algorithms.

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camall3n/atari-MAC tf
kavosh8/MAC tf

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Atari Gamesreinforcement-learningReinforcement LearningReinforcement Learning (RL)

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