Modified Actor-Critics

Recent successful deep reinforcement learning algorithms, such as Trust Region Policy Optimization or Proximal Policy Optimization, are fundamentally variations of conservative policy iteration. These algorithms iterate policy evaluation followed by a softened policy improvement step. As so, they are naturally on-policy. Here, we propose to combine (any kind of) soft greediness with Modified Policy Iteration. The proposed abstract framework applies repeatedly: (i) a partial policy evaluation step that allows off-policy learning and (ii) any softened greedy step. Our contribution can be seen as a new generic tool for the deep reinforcement learning toolbox.

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