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TensorFlow Reinforcement Learning Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   TensorFlow Reinforcement Learning Quick Start Guide Get up and running with training and deploying intelligent, self-learning agents using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789533583
Length 184 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kaushik Balakrishnan Kaushik Balakrishnan
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Up and Running with Reinforcement Learning 2. Temporal Difference, SARSA, and Q-Learning FREE CHAPTER 3. Deep Q-Network 4. Double DQN, Dueling Architectures, and Rainbow 5. Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient 6. Asynchronous Methods - A3C and A2C 7. Trust Region Policy Optimization and Proximal Policy Optimization 8. Deep RL Applied to Autonomous Driving 9. Assessment 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Learning about replay buffer

We need the tuple (s, a, r, s', done) for updating the DQN, where s and a are respectively the state and actions at time t; s' is the new state at time t+1; and done is a Boolean value that is True or False depending on whether the episode is not completed or has ended, also referred to as the terminal value in the literature. This Boolean done or terminal variable is used so that, in the Bellman update, the last terminal state of an episode is properly handled (since we cannot do an r + γ max Q(s',a') for the terminal state). One problem in DQNs is that we use contiguous samples of the (s, a, r, s', done) tuple, they are correlated, and so the training can overfit.

To mitigate this issue, a replay buffer is used, where the tuple (s, a, r, s', done) is stored from experience, and a mini-batch of such experiences...

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