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Trust Region & Proximal Policy Optimization

Pascal Poupart via YouTube

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This lecture explains trust-region and proximal policy optimization methods for reinforcement learning. It covers policy gradients, KL divergence, constrained optimization, TRPO and PPO algorithms, and empirical results.

Syllabus

Gradient policy optimization
Recall Policy Gradient
Trust region method
Trust region for policies
Kullback-Leibler Divergence
Reformulation
Derivation (continued)
Trust Region Policy Optimization (TRPO) TRPOO Initialize sa to anything Loop forever (for each episode)
Constrained Optimization
Simpler Objective
Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)
Empirical Results
Illustration

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Pascal Poupart

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