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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
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ES on CartPole

The complete example is in Chapter16/01_cartpole_es.py. In this example, we use the single environment to check the fitness of the perturbed network weights. Our fitness function will be the undiscounted total reward for the episode:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import gym
import time
import numpy as np

import torch
import torch.nn as nn

from tensorboardX import SummaryWriter

From the import statements, you can notice how self-contained our example is. We're not using PyTorch optimizers, as we do not perform backpropagation at all. In fact, we could avoid using PyTorch completely and work only with NumPy, as the only thing we use PyTorch for is to perform a forward pass and calculate the network's output.

MAX_BATCH_EPISODES = 100 MAX_BATCH_STEPS ...
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