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Hands-On Reinforcement Learning with Python
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Hands-On Reinforcement Learning with Python

by Sudharsan Ravichandiran
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
318 pages
9h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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Deep deterministic policy gradient

In Chapter 8, Atari Games with Deep Q Network, we looked at how DQN works and we applied DQNs to play Atari games. However, those are discrete environments where we have a finite set of actions. Think of a continuous environment space like training a robot to walk; in those environments it is not feasible to apply Q learning because finding a greedy policy will require a lot of optimization at each and every step. Even if we make this continuous environment discrete, we might lose important features and end up with a huge set of action spaces. It is difficult to attain convergence when we have a huge action space.

So we use a new architecture called Actor Critic with two networks—Actor and Critic. The Actor ...

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