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Efficient Wasserstein Natural Gradients for Reinforcement Learning

12 Oct 2020ICLR 2021 1arXiv:2010.05380archive 2025-07-28

Ted Moskovitz, Michael Arbel, Ferenc Huszar, Arthur Gretton

A novel optimization approach is proposed for application to policy gradient methods and evolution strategies for reinforcement learning (RL). The procedure uses a computationally efficient Wasserstein natural gradient (WNG) descent that takes advantage of the geometry induced by a Wasserstein penalty to speed optimization. This method follows the recent theme in RL of including a divergence penalty in the objective to establish a trust region. Experiments on challenging tasks demonstrate improvements in both computational cost and performance over advanced baselines.

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