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Soft Actor-Critic Algorithms and Applications

13 Dec 2018arXiv:1812.05905archive 2025-07-28

Tuomas Haarnoja, Aurick Zhou, Kristian Hartikainen, George Tucker, Sehoon Ha, Jie Tan, Vikash Kumar, Henry Zhu, Abhishek Gupta, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine

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Decision MakingReinforcement LearningReinforcement Learning (RL)reinforcement-learning

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Introduced by this paper: Soft Actor-Critic (Autotuned Temperature)

AdamDense ConnectionsExperience ReplayReLUSoft Actor-Critic (Autotuned Temperature)

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