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Soft Actor-Critic (Autotuned Temperature)
Introduced by Tuomas Haarnoja et al. in Soft Actor-Critic Algorithms and Applications
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Soft Actor Critic (Autotuned Temperature is a modification of the SAC reinforcement learning algorithm. SAC can suffer from brittleness to the temperature hyperparameter. Unlike in conventional reinforcement learning, where the optimal policy is independent of scaling of the reward function, in maximum entropy reinforcement learning the scaling factor has to be compensated by the choice a of suitable temperature, and a sub-optimal temperature can drastically degrade performance. To resolve this issue, SAC with Autotuned Temperature has an automatic gradient-based temperature tuning method that adjusts the expected entropy over the visited states to match a target value.
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Leveraging Demonstrations with Latent Space Priors 26 Oct 2022 · 1 repository · arXiv:2210.14685Syntology ran 2 of 3 samples · 1 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
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Soft Actor-Critic Deep Reinforcement Learning for Fault Tolerant Flight Control 16 Feb 2022 · 1 repository · arXiv:2202.09262
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Self-Supervised Policy Adaptation during Deployment 8 Jul 2020 · 2 repositories · arXiv:2007.04309Syntology ran 16 of 21 samples · 5 unverified · 21 pointer-only (licence)
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PFPN: Continuous Control of Physically Simulated Characters using Particle Filtering Policy Network 16 Mar 2020 · 1 repository · arXiv:2003.06959
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Discrete and Continuous Action Representation for Practical RL in Video Games 23 Dec 2019 · 1 repository · arXiv:1912.11077Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverified
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Soft Actor-Critic Algorithms and Applications 13 Dec 2018 · 52 repositories · arXiv:1812.05905Syntology ran 10 of 40 samples · 30 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
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