Chapter 15. Trust Regions – TRPO, PPO, and ACKTR
In this chapter, we'll take a look at the approaches used to improve the stability of the stochastic policy gradient method. Some attempts have been made to make the policy improvement more stable and we'll focus on three methods: Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), Trust Region Policy Optimization (TRPO) and Actor-Critic (A2C) using Kronecker-Factored Trust Region (ACKTR).
To compare them to the A2C baseline, we'll use several environments from the roboschool library created by OpenAI.