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Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On
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Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On

by Oleg Vasilev, Maxim Lapan, Martijn van Otterlo, Mikhail Yurushkin, Basem O. F. Alijla
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
546 pages
13h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On

The extra Gym functionality – wrappers and monitors

What we discussed so far covers two-thirds of the Gym core API and the essential functions required to start writing agents. The rest of the API you can live without, but it will make your life easier and your code cleaner. So, let's look at a quick overview of the rest of the API.

Wrappers

Very frequently, you will want to extend the environment's functionality in some generic way. For example, an environment gives you some observations, but you want to accumulate them in some buffer and provide to the agent the N last observations, which is a common scenario for dynamic computer games, when one single frame is just not enough to get the full information about the game state. Another example is ...

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