{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/boosting-trust-region-policy-optimization-by","title":"Boosting Trust Region Policy Optimization by Normalizing Flows Policy","arxiv_id":"1809.10326","date":"2018-09-27","proceeding":null,"authors":["Yunhao Tang","Shipra Agrawal"],"abstract":"We propose to improve trust region policy search with normalizing flows\npolicy. We illustrate that when the trust region is constructed by KL\ndivergence constraints, normalizing flows policy generates samples far from the\n'center' of the previous policy iterate, which potentially enables better\nexploration and helps avoid bad local optima. Through extensive comparisons, we\nshow that the normalizing flows policy significantly improves upon baseline\narchitectures especially on high-dimensional tasks with complex dynamics.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10326v3","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.10326v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"boosting-trust-region-policy-optimization-by","repo_url":"https://github.com/robintyh1/onpolicybaselines","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[],"methods":[{"method_slug":"normalizing-flows","method_name":"Normalizing Flows"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1809.10326","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}