Conclusion
In this chapter, we've covered the policy gradient methods. Starting with the policy gradient theorem, we formulated four methods to train the policy network. The four methods, REINFORCE, REINFORCE with baseline, Actor-Critic, and A2C algorithms were discussed in detail. We explored how the four methods could be implemented in Keras. We then validated the algorithms by examining the number of times the agent successfully reached its goal and in terms of the total rewards received per episode.
Similar to Deep Q-Network [3] that we discussed in the previous chapter, there are several improvements that can be done on the fundamental policy gradient algorithms. For example, the most prominent one is the A3C [4] which is a multi-threaded ...
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