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An introduction to Policy Gradient methods – Deep Reinforcement Learning

In this episode I introduce Policy Gradient methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning.

After a general overview, I dive into Proximal Policy Optimization: an algorithm designed at OpenAI that tries to find a balance between sample efficiency and code complexity. PPO is the algorithm used to train the OpenAI Five system and is also used in a wide range of other challenges like Atari and robotic control tasks.

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Links mentioned in the video:
⦁ PPO paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06347
⦁ TRPO paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05477
⦁ OpenAI PPO blogpost: https://blog.openai.com/openai-baselines-ppo/
⦁ Aurelien Geron: KL divergence and entropy in ML: https://youtu.be/ErfnhcEV1O8
⦁ Deep RL Bootcamp – Lecture 5: https://youtu.be/xvRrgxcpaHY
⦁ RL-adventure PyTorch implementation: https://github.com/higgsfield/RL-Adventure-2
⦁ OpenAI Baselines TensorFlow implementation: https://github.com/openai/baselines