{"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/exploring-reinforcement-learning-techniques","title":"Exploring reinforcement learning techniques for discrete and continuous control tasks in the MuJoCo environment","arxiv_id":"2307.11166","date":"2023-07-20","proceeding":null,"authors":["Vaddadi Sai Rahul","Debajyoti Chakraborty"],"abstract":"We leverage the fast physics simulator, MuJoCo to run tasks in a continuous control environment and reveal details like the observation space, action space, rewards, etc. for each task. We benchmark value-based methods for continuous control by comparing Q-learning and SARSA through a discretization approach, and using them as baselines, progressively moving into one of the state-of-the-art deep policy gradient method DDPG. Over a large number of episodes, Qlearning outscored SARSA, but DDPG outperformed both in a small number of episodes. Lastly, we also fine-tuned the model hyper-parameters expecting to squeeze more performance but using lesser time and resources. We anticipated that the new design for DDPG would vastly improve performance, yet after only a few episodes, we were able to achieve decent average rewards. We expect to improve the performance provided adequate time and computational resources.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11166v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.11166v1.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":"exploring-reinforcement-learning-techniques","repo_url":"https://github.com/chakrabortyde/mujoco-control-tasks","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"tf","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"continuous-control","task_name":"Continuous Control"},{"task_slug":"mujoco","task_name":"MuJoCo"},{"task_slug":"q-learning","task_name":"Q-Learning"},{"task_slug":"continuous-control","task_name":"continuous-control"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"adam","method_name":"Adam"},{"method_slug":"batch-normalization","method_name":"Batch Normalization"},{"method_slug":"convolution","method_name":"Convolution"},{"method_slug":"ddpg","method_name":"DDPG"},{"method_slug":"dense-connections","method_name":"Dense Connections"},{"method_slug":"experience-replay","method_name":"Experience Replay"},{"method_slug":"q-learning","method_name":"Q-Learning"},{"method_slug":"relu","method_name":"ReLU"},{"method_slug":"sarsa","method_name":"Sarsa"},{"method_slug":"weight-decay","method_name":"Weight Decay"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}