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Dopamine: A Research Framework for Deep Reinforcement Learning

14 Dec 2018arXiv:1812.06110archive 2025-07-28

Pablo Samuel Castro, Subhodeep Moitra, Carles Gelada, Saurabh Kumar, Marc G. Bellemare

Dopamine is a research framework for fast prototyping of reinforcement learning algorithms.

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