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Material suggestion for soft actor-critic method

SAC: Soft-Actor critic method is popular especially in the field of robotics as the author had worked on this method during his PhD while working in the field of robotics. For SAC, you might find this ...
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Material suggestion for soft actor-critic method

SAC is known for its stability and efficiency in continuous control tasks. You can directly read the original papers on SAC with detailed derivations and explanations which is Haarnoja et al (2018), ...
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Derivation of the relationship between state-value function and action-value function in SAC

A great intuitive answer was provided by @cinch; I will provide an answer based on notation conversion. First, note that the sampled trajectory $\tau$ does not include $s_0$ because $s_0{=}s$ by ...
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Derivation of the relationship between state-value function and action-value function in SAC

This relation is from the definition of action value function such as that defined in Sutton's RL book page 58. we define the value of taking action $a$ in state $s$ under a policy $\pi$, denoted $q_{...
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