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Why does the PyTorch tutorial on DQN define state as a difference?

I'm a master's student in EECS working my way towards understanding how DQN [0] works. I'm working towards solving the CartPole-v0 task in as few iterations as possible. First of all I implemented a ...

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Cannot solve FrozenLake with QLearning and slippery mode enabled

I'm trying to solve the open-ai gym frozen lake problem with a basic Q learning table and it works quite well with is_slippery=False. But it cannot find a solution ...

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asked Nov 15 at 18:01

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Definition of the Q* function in reinforcement learning

I'm making my way through Sutton's Introduction to Reinforcement Learning. He gives the definition of the $q_*$ function as follows $$ q_*(a) = \mathbf{E}[R_t | A_t = a] $$ where $A_t$ is the action ...

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Reference implementation of q-learning in Python

I'm a machine learning newbie, trying to learn Q-learning. I read a few texts and I get the general gist, but what I'd really love to see is a simple example of a Q-learning algorithm in Python that I ...

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Different Initial Q-Values in Q-Learning

When working with Q-Learning, what is the difference between having a Q_0(a) with all values zero, random or optimistic?

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asked Aug 30 at 10:25

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When should I use normal Q learning over a DQN?

From this article here, it says that using a tabular Q function is less scalable than a deep Q network. I assume that this means that the Q table approach works for some environments, but once they ...

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asked Aug 27 at 0:09

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My Deep Q-Learning Network does not learn for OpenAI gym's cartpole problem

I am implementing OpenAI gym's cartpole problem using Deep Q-Learning (DQN). I followed tutorials (video and otherwise) and learned all about it. I implemented a code for myself and I thought it ...

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asked Aug 12 at 0:42

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Deep Q-learning, how to set q-value of non-selected actions?

I am learning Deep Q-learning by applying it to a real world problem. I have been through some tutorials and papers available online but I counldn't figure out the solution for the following problem ...

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asked Jul 21 at 10:04

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Wich activation function for DQL

After many research, I still can't find a neat answer about this question: When I found the loss of my state-action pair. I'm only backpropagating that loss true the network and setting all other ...

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asked Jun 17 at 12:26

Alexandre Martens

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Is this a valid stability concern/improvement for DQN/DDQN reinforcement training?

As you all know, DQN or DDQN are known for "unstable training". Let's use the well known "CartPole". The agent has to balance the stick and gets a reward of +1 per frame. You can reach the 195 ...

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asked Jun 4 at 22:31

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How to save and load a Q-Learning Agent

I know this may sound nooby, but how do I save a Deep Q-Learning agent's progress? I mean when I close at i.e. episode 500 when my agent is trained and I restart (in my case a pygame) my agent is ...

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asked May 21 at 12:06

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First Simple DQN not learning to navigate maze

So I am currently attempting to write my first DQN implementation, where the aim is for the agent to learn to navigate the board from the top left to the bottom right while avoiding the hole right in ...

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asked May 8 at 17:34

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Can we use Q-Learning (or RL in general) for this problem?

Let's say that we have an algorithm that given a dataset point, it runs some analysis on it and returns the results. The algorithm has a user-defined parameter X that affects the run-time of the ...

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asked May 5 at 15:35

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Reward Function for a model-free MDP

I am trying to build a program which has to decide in a completely stochastic environment. So it has to be model-free and Q-learning is suitable for that. I just have one problem, my rewards are not ...

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asked Apr 23 at 6:49

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For off policy reinforcement learning how different can the current policy be from the policies which generated the data

Say we have two policies and we use one to generate data with. We now want to use this data to optimize the second policy (the two policies are defined with the same input and output space but with ...

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asked Apr 22 at 21:50

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Reward engineering to replace single terminal reward (exponential utility of terminal wealth)

My goal is to use reinforcement learning to train the agent (the trader) to maximize the exponential utility of his P&L (profit and loss) at a terminal time T. Therefore the natural formulation of ...

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asked Apr 21 at 11:06

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How are n dimensional vectors state vectors represented in Q Learning?

Using this code: ...

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asked Apr 14 at 19:46

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Reward(t) vs. Reward(t+1) ? Reinforcement Learning, Q-learning

In "Reinforcement Learning, An Introduction; Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto" is written on page 70: 3.1 The Agent–Environment Interface At each time step t, the agent receives some ...

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asked Mar 19 at 1:59

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Index tensor must have same dimensions as input tensor

I am trying to train a DQN to do optimal energy scheduling. Each state comes as a vector of 4 variables (represented by floats) saved in the replay memory as a state tensor, each action is an integer ...

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asked Mar 17 at 20:29

EArwa

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Q-learning, state transition, immediate rewards (trading logic)

I've been thinking about how to correctly calculate rewards for several weeks now. Here is a grid example: ...

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asked Mar 16 at 5:53

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find the parameter of model with Q learning

I have a question with regard to Q learning. I am a beginner in Q learning. Every example that I saw is related to the environment that the goal is assigned to a place. (like cliff walk that we know ...

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asked Mar 2 at 17:44

Hasan

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Markov Decision Process representation

I'm attempting to model a simple process using a Markov Decision Process. Let $A$ be a set of $3$ actions : $ A \in \{b,s\}$. $T(s,a,s')$ represents the probability of if in state $s$ , take action $...

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asked Feb 9 at 15:07

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help understanding deep Q learning algorithm from deep mind paper

I'm studying this paper https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/dqn/DQNNaturePaper.pdf, and I have a question about proposed algorithm(it appears on page 7 of the paper): The problem I see is ...

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asked Feb 3 at 15:03

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How is the target_f updated in the Keras solution to the Deep Q-learning Cartpole/Gym algorithm?

There's a popular solution to the CartPole game using Keras and Deep Q-Learning: https://keon.github.io/deep-q-learning/ But there's a line of code that's confusing, this same question has been asked ...

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asked Feb 1 at 13:17

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Deep Q Network gives same Q values and doesn't improve

I'm trying to build a deep Q network to play snake. I've run into an issue where the agent doesn't learn and its performance at the end of the training cycle is to repeatedly kill itself. After a bit ...

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asked Dec 30 '19 at 22:10

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Would Deep Q Learning work for a finite horizon problem?

I want to apply Deep Q Learning to a problem, which has a clear finite horizon definition, like: $$V(s) = \mathbb{E}[r_1 + r_2]$$ Since the horizon is finite, I do not use reward discounting. My ...

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asked Dec 26 '19 at 21:32

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Incentivizing curiosity in a sparse reward environment

I'm quite new to reinforcement learning, but have been exploring different kinds of architectures (DQN, dueling DQN, actor critic, etc.) and evaluating their ability to solve certain problems. The ...

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asked Dec 14 '19 at 19:07

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Deep Q Learning - training slows down significantly

I'm trying to build a deep Q network to play snake. I designed the game so that the window is 600 by 600 and the snake's head moves 30 pixels each tick. I implemented the DQN algorithm with memory ...

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asked Nov 29 '19 at 2:51

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Reducing the training time of an RL agent

I am trying to develop an rl agent using DQN algorithm.During training, the agent interacts with environment which is a simulated one.Each episode takes around 10 mins to run. This way if want my ...

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asked Sep 19 '19 at 8:34

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How to formulate reward of an rl agent with two objectives

I have started learning reinforcement learning and trying to apply it for my use case. I am developing an rl agent which can maintain temperature at a particular value, and minimize the energy ...

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asked Sep 17 '19 at 8:36

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Keras high loss and high accuracy in gk bot with reinforcement learning?

I'm making goal-keeper bot in haxball game. It worked well when i trained less but i worked worse when i trained more. Last reinforcement state: 5160 episode - 4171281 steps - 0.05 epsilon: Last fit ...

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asked Sep 5 '19 at 17:40

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Q-learning when minimising a total cost instead of maximising a total reward

I have a decision problem where the results are measured as a cost that I want to minimise. It seems like a good fit to Q-learning, but I am not sure how to adjust it to deal with a cost instead of a ...

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asked Jul 30 '19 at 12:14

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Deep Q-Learning for physical quantity: q-values distribution not as expected

Setting I am trying to learn a specific physical quantity (radiance) inside a 3D scene with Deep Q-Learning. Just to give a quick overview, my agent shoots rays inside the scene: the reward is the ...

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asked Jul 29 '19 at 9:24

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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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DQN - target values vs action values?

I'm trying to understand the difference between target-values and action-values in Deep Q Networks. From what I understand, action-value tries to approximate the reward of a given action (at some ...

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asked Jul 21 '19 at 17:42

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Why could my DDQN get significantly worse after beating the game repeatedly?

I've been trying to train a DDQN to play OpenAI Gym's CartPole-v1, but found that although it starts off well and starts getting full score (500) repeatedly (at around 600 episodes in the pic below), ...

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asked Jul 20 '19 at 8:06

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Q table creation and update for dynamic action space

I am trying to implement a Q-learning algorithm for energy optimization. It is a finite MDP with states represented as 6 dimensional vectors of integers. The number of discrete values in each index of ...

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asked Jul 16 '19 at 14:41

EArwa

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Alternative approach for Q-Learning

I have a question related to an alterative Q-Learning approach. I'd like to know if this already exists and I am not aware of it, or it doesn't exist because there are theoretical problems behind it. ...

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asked Jun 22 '19 at 8:23

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Difference between Dueling DQN and Double DQN?

I have read some articles, but still can not figure out the difference between the Dueling DQN and Double DQN? What exactly is the difference between them? Also, Does Dueling DQN need to be built on ...

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asked May 31 '19 at 17:46

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Reinforcement Learning using PPO2 in openai gym retro, mario not learning the clear the easy episode

I am training mario game in retro using ppo2 baselines for some time. I have tried level3 and level1 too. But even after full training when I play using saved checkpoints, the mario is not able to ...

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asked May 11 '19 at 10:46

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Intuition behind the loss function in Deep Q learning?

I'm currently following a tutorial but I got stuck at the deep Q learning model. According to my understanding of neural networks they predict an approximate function for the inputs given with the ...

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asked May 5 '19 at 12:34

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If the set of all possible states changes each time, how can Q-learning “learn” anything?

I found this resource that explains q-learning with a very simple example. Make it a 2D problem, a rectangle instead of a line, and it's still simple. The only difference is that now there are 2 more ...

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Representing state in Q-Learning

I have a fairly simple game in which I wish to use Q-learning to train an agent, but I have some questions regarding state representation. I'm new to RL so bare with me: If you have a game where you ...

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Ross Kohler

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Q-Learning experience replay: how to feed the neural network?

I'm trying to replicate the DQN Atari experiment. Actually my DQN isn't performing well; checking another one's codes, I saw something about experience replay which I don't understand. First, when you ...

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DQN fails to find optimal policy

Based on DeepMind publication, I've recreated the environment and I am trying to make the DQN find and converge to an optimal policy. The task of an agent is to learn how to sustainably collect apples ...

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Is reward accumulated during a play iteration when performing SARSA?

I've been having issue with getting my DQN to converge to a good solution for snake. Regardless of the different types of reward functions I've tried, it seems that the snake is indefinitely going ...

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Openai Spaces for a modified environment

I have a 2-dimensional array of normalized data. I am using space = np.array([0,1,...366],[0,0.000001,.....1]) I need to fit this as an observation space in ...

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asked Mar 17 '19 at 16:29

Karthik Rajkumar

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Q learning transition matrix trouble

First, apologies if this isn't the right forum for my question -- let me know if there's a better place. I'm trying to implement Q learning on a two-dimensional grid world, where the agent has four ...

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asked Jan 30 '19 at 1:14

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Why is “next state” kept in RL experience replay?

Following this explanation on what is experience replay (and others), I noticed an experience element is defined as $e_t = (s_t,a_t,r_t,s_{t+1})$ My question is, why do we need the ...

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What is the meaning of the Variant Q-learning and To what INPUT and OUTPUT refer? in Abstract of DeepMind DQN paper 2013

-INPUT and OUTPUT OF ATARI DQN: In the abstract paragraph of the DQN work by DeepMind it has written: " We present the first deep learning model to successfully learn control policies directly ...

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