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Policy gradient method

Policy gradient methods are a class of reinforcement learning algorithms and a sub-class of policy optimization methods. Unlike value-based methods which learn a value function to derive a policy, policy optimization methods directly learn a policy function π {\displaystyle \pi } that selects actions without consulting a value function. For policy…

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Trust Region Policy Optimization (TRPO)

Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)

Policy Optimization and the Mirror Descent perspective (MDPO)

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Policy gradient method

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Policy gradient method → Big, It, Lemma, Ronald, That, The, The REINFORCE, Williams
related to Trust Region Policy Optimization (TRPO) · 8
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Policy gradient method → stochastic estimation of the policy gradient, variant of the policy gradient method

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