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arxiv: 1708.04133 · v1 · pith:3C2NCFHZnew · submitted 2017-08-10 · 💻 cs.LG

Reproducibility of Benchmarked Deep Reinforcement Learning Tasks for Continuous Control

classification 💻 cs.LG
keywords methodspolicyalgorithmscontinuouscontrolnoveldeepgeneral
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Policy gradient methods in reinforcement learning have become increasingly prevalent for state-of-the-art performance in continuous control tasks. Novel methods typically benchmark against a few key algorithms such as deep deterministic policy gradients and trust region policy optimization. As such, it is important to present and use consistent baselines experiments. However, this can be difficult due to general variance in the algorithms, hyper-parameter tuning, and environment stochasticity. We investigate and discuss: the significance of hyper-parameters in policy gradients for continuous control, general variance in the algorithms, and reproducibility of reported results. We provide guidelines on reporting novel results as comparisons against baseline methods such that future researchers can make informed decisions when investigating novel methods.

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