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A2C learning very slowly when I try to make it learn on batches as compared to making it learn on each step

I tried this on openai gym environment - LunarLander-v2. I wrote two algorithms with just one difference: Made it learn on each step. Made it learn at the end of each episode. There is a ...

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asked Jun 14 '20 at 12:58

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Pytorch XLA to solve the spawn problems in a Colab Env

As reference only, here is my code It seems that torch.multiprocessing.set_start_method("spawn") can't be used in an Colab Env. Only 'fork' is allowed. I have ...

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asked May 22 '20 at 12:53

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Action selection in actor-critic algorithm:

I have an action space that is just a list of values given by acts = [i for i in range(10, 100, 10)]. According to pytorch documentary, the loss is calculated as below. Could someone explain to me how ...

reinforcement-learning pytorch actor-critic

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Actions taken by agentn/ agent performance not improving

Hi I am trying to develop an rl agent using PPO algorithm. My agent takes an action(CFM) to maintain a state variable called RAT in between 24 to 24.5. I am using PPO algorithm of stable-baselines ...

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Rewards are converged but with a lot of variations

I am training a reinforcement learning agent on an episodic task of fixed episode length. I am tracking the training process by plotting the cumulative rewards over an episode. I am using tensorboard ...

reinforcement-learning ai actor-critic

asked Nov 29 '19 at 10:28

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Having a reward structure which gives high positive rewards compared to the negative rewards

I am training an RL agent using PPO algorithm for a control problem. The objective of the agent is to maintain temperature in a room. It is an episodic task with episode length of 9 hrs and step size(...

reinforcement-learning dqn ai actor-critic monte-carlo

asked Nov 27 '19 at 4:39

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Formulation of a reward structure

I am new to reinforcement learning and experimenting with training of RL agents. I have a doubt about reward formulation, from a given state if a agent takes a good action i give a positive reward, ...

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asked Nov 26 '19 at 10:26

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Actor Critic Model implementation

I am going to work on a project which requires implementation of A2C model using Tensorflow 2.0. I am new in the Machine Learning field and also in Python. These are topics which I have covered ...

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asked Nov 25 '19 at 0:42

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How to handle differences between training and deploying of an RL agent

Hi I am training an RL agent for a control problem. The objective of the agent is to maintain temperature in a zone. It is an episodic task with episode length of 10 hrs and actions being taken every ...

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asked Nov 18 '19 at 7:16

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Different results every time I train a reinforcement learning agent

I am training an RL agent for a control problem using PPO algorithm. I am using stable-baselines library for it. The objective of an agent is to maintain a temperature of 24 deg in a zone and it ...

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asked Nov 6 '19 at 11:03

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Evaluating a trained Reinforcement Learning Agent?

I am new to reinforcement learning agent training. I have read about PPO algorithm and used stable baselines library to train an agent using PPO. So my question here is how do I evaluate a trained RL ...

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asked Oct 30 '19 at 11:41

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Agent always takes a same action in DQN - Reinforcement Learning

I have trained an RL agent using DQN algorithm. After 20000 episodes my rewards are converged. Now when I test this agent, the agent is always taking the same action , irrespective of state. I find ...

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asked Oct 4 '19 at 15:02

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Reward is converging but actions taken by trained agent are illogical in reinforcement learning

I am training a reinforcement learning agent using DQN. My state space has 6 variables and the agent can one action which is discretized into 500 actions My reward structure looks like ...

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asked Oct 3 '19 at 11:47

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Why can't Policy Gradient Algorithm be seen as an Actor-Critic Method?

During the equation deducing in policy gradient algorithm(e.g., REINFORCE), we are actually using an expectancy of total reward, which we try to maximize. $$\overline{R_\theta}=E_{\tau\sim\pi_\theta}[...

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asked Jul 22 '19 at 9:54

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A2C Continuous for Pendulum-v0 working implementation, negation for loss and entropy calculation

very good implementation of A2C continuous for Pendulum-v0 Code has snippet to stop execution when mean of last 10 or 20 is higher than -20 but the results look like: ...

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asked Jun 23 '19 at 1:25

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multipying negated gradients by actions for the loss in actor nn of DDPG

In this Udacity project code that I have been combing through line by line to understand the implementation, I have stumbled on a part in class Actor where this ...

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asked Mar 24 '19 at 14:42

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Reinforcement learning - generating a matrix of continuous values with varying size for test data generation

Currently, I am using RL A3C algorithm for test data generation, where for a set of 30 functions written in C (mostly basic algorithms like Prime number checks, triangle validity, etc.) I try to ...

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asked Mar 13 '19 at 1:55

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Proof subtracting baseline doesn't influence gradient can be used to show no gradient exist at all?

I am using David Silver's course in RL to help me write my thesis. However, I am baffled by the proof given in lecture 7 slide 29: slideshow \begin{align} \mathbb{E}_{\pi_\theta}[\nabla_\theta \log_\...

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asked Feb 5 '19 at 1:21

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Stability of value function approximation in policy gradients

In DQNs, function approximation of the Q-values is unstable for correlated updates. In policy gradients with a baseline, will the value function of the policy not be plagued by the same correlated ...

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asked Oct 16 '18 at 19:23

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Time horizon T in policy gradients (actor-critic)

I am currently going through the Berkeley lectures on Reinforcement Learning. Specifically, I am at slide 5 of this lecture. At the bottom of that slide, the gradient of the expected sum of rewards ...

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asked Aug 28 '18 at 14:56

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A3C - Turning action probabilities into intensities

I'm experimenting with using an A3C network to learn to play old Atari video games. My network outputs a set of probabilities for each possible action (e.g. left, right, shoot), and I use this ...

machine-learning reinforcement-learning probability actor-critic

asked Jan 27 '18 at 12:49

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How to design two different neural nets for actor and critic RL?

In order to have an actor critic RL model there are two things to be satisfied . Value approximation function should converge to a local minimum $$\sum_s d^{\pi}(s) \sum_a \pi(s,a)[Q^{\pi}(s,a) - ...

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Questions tagged [actor-critic]

A2C learning very slowly when I try to make it learn on batches as compared to making it learn on each step

Pytorch XLA to solve the spawn problems in a Colab Env

Action selection in actor-critic algorithm:

Actions taken by agentn/ agent performance not improving

Rewards are converged but with a lot of variations

Having a reward structure which gives high positive rewards compared to the negative rewards

Formulation of a reward structure

Actor Critic Model implementation

How to handle differences between training and deploying of an RL agent

Different results every time I train a reinforcement learning agent

Evaluating a trained Reinforcement Learning Agent?

Agent always takes a same action in DQN - Reinforcement Learning

Reward is converging but actions taken by trained agent are illogical in reinforcement learning

Why can't Policy Gradient Algorithm be seen as an Actor-Critic Method?

A2C Continuous for Pendulum-v0 working implementation, negation for loss and entropy calculation

multipying negated gradients by actions for the loss in actor nn of DDPG

Reinforcement learning - generating a matrix of continuous values with varying size for test data generation

Proof subtracting baseline doesn't influence gradient can be used to show no gradient exist at all?

Stability of value function approximation in policy gradients

Time horizon T in policy gradients (actor-critic)

A3C - Turning action probabilities into intensities

How to design two different neural nets for actor and critic RL?

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