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### Are there other approaches to deal with variable action spaces?

Does anyone know any paper regarding this subject? I'm not familiar with any off the top of my head. I do know that the vast majority of Reinforcement Learning literature focuses on settings with a ...
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### How does LSTM in deep reinforcement learning differ from experience replay?

How does this method differ from the experience replay, as they both use past information in the training? What's the typical application of both techniques? Using a recurrent neural network is one ...
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### Why does DQN require two different networks?

My best guess that it's been done to reduce the computation time, otherwise we would have to find out the q value for each action and then select the best one. It has no real impact on computation ...
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### Do we have to use CNN for Deep Q Learning?

No. DQN and other deep RL methods work well with fully connected layers. Here's an implementation of DQN which doesn't use CNNs: github.com/keon/deep-q-learning/blob/master/dqn.py DeepMind mostly use ...
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### How large should the replay buffer be?

In order for the algorithm to have stable behavior, the replay buffer should be large enough to contain a wide range of experiences, but it may not always be good to keep everything. The larger the ...
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### How large should the replay buffer be?

You need to read this 2020 paper by Deepmind: "Revisiting Fundamentals of Experience Replay" Also, to add to the answer by @nbro Assume you implement experience replay as a buffer where the ...
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### What exactly is the advantage of double DQN over DQN?

In $Q$-learning there is what is known as a maximisation bias. That is because the update target is $r + \gamma \max_a Q(s,a)$. If you slightly overestimate your $Q$-value then this error gets ...
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### Is Experience Replay like dreaming?

The speaker argued that a dream is a random addition of memories, just as experience replay. The speaker is taking some liberties due to a general lack of scientific understanding of what dreams are. ...
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### How to combine backpropagation in neural nets and reinforcement learning?

Gradient descent and back-propagation In deep learning, gradient descent (GD) and back-propagation (BP) are used to update the weights of the neural network. In reinforcement learning, one could map (...
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### How should I model all available actions of a chess game in deep Q-learning?

To model chess as a Markov decision problem (MDP) you can refer to the AlphaZero paper (Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm). The exact details can ...
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### What is the difference between DQN and AlphaGo Zero?

DQN and AlphaZero do not share much in terms of implementation. However, they are based on the same Reinforcement Learning (RL) theoretical framework. If you understand terms like MDP, reward, return, ...
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In DQN that was presented in the original paper the update target for the Q-Network is $\left(r_t + \max_aQ(s_{t+1},a;\theta^-) - Q(s_t,a_t; \theta)\right)^2$ were $\theta^-$ is some old version of ...