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Deep Reinforcement Learning in Action
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Deep Reinforcement Learning in Action

by Alexander Zai, Brandon Brown
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h 10m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
Content preview from Deep Reinforcement Learning in Action

Chapter 7. Distributional DQN: Getting the full story

This chapter covers

  • Why a full probability distribution is better than a single number
  • Extending ordinary deep Q-networks to output full probability distributions over Q values
  • Implementing a distributional variant of DQN to play Atari Freeway
  • Understanding the ordinary Bellman equation and its distributional variant
  • Prioritizing experience replay to improve training speed

We introduced Q-learning in chapter 3 as a way to determine the value of taking each possible action in a given state; the values were called action values or Q values. This allowed us to apply a policy to these action values and to choose actions associated with the highest action values. In this chapter we will extend ...

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