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Hands-On Reinforcement Learning with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Reinforcement Learning with Python Master reinforcement and deep reinforcement learning using OpenAI Gym and TensorFlow

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788836524
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sudharsan Ravichandiran Sudharsan Ravichandiran
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Reinforcement Learning FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with OpenAI and TensorFlow 3. The Markov Decision Process and Dynamic Programming 4. Gaming with Monte Carlo Methods 5. Temporal Difference Learning 6. Multi-Armed Bandit Problem 7. Deep Learning Fundamentals 8. Atari Games with Deep Q Network 9. Playing Doom with a Deep Recurrent Q Network 10. The Asynchronous Advantage Actor Critic Network 11. Policy Gradients and Optimization 12. Capstone Project – Car Racing Using DQN 13. Recent Advancements and Next Steps 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Prioritized experience replay

In DQN architecture, we use experience replay to remove correlations between the training samples. However, uniformly sampling transitions from the replay memory is not an optimal method. Instead, we can prioritize transitions and sample according to priority. Prioritizing transitions helps the network to learn swiftly and effectively. How do we prioritize the transitions? We prioritize the transitions that have a high TD error. We know that a TD error specifies the difference between the estimated Q value and the actual Q value. So, transitions with a high TD error are the transition we have to focus on and learn from because those are the transitions that deviate from our estimation. Intuitively, let us say you try to solve a set of problems, but you fail in solving two of these problems. You then give priority to those two problems alone to focus...

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