2017

Variational Deep Q Network

Tang, Yunhao, Kucukelbir, Alp

Understand

We propose a framework that directly tackles the probability distribution of the value function parameters in Deep Q Network (DQN), with powerful variational inference subroutines to approximate the posterior of the parameters.

  • We will establish the equivalence between our proposed surrogate objective and variational inference loss.
  • Our new algorithm achieves efficient exploration and performs well on large scale chain Markov Decision Process (MDP).

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