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This architecture uses four main components: parallel\nactors that generate new behaviour; parallel learners that are trained from\nstored experience; a distributed neural network to represent the value function\nor behaviour policy; and a distributed store of experience. We used our\narchitecture to implement the Deep Q-Network algorithm (DQN). Our distributed\nalgorithm was applied to 49 games from Atari 2600 games from the Arcade\nLearning Environment, using identical hyperparameters. 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