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<h1 id="actor-critic-architecture">Actor-Critic Architecture</h1>
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<p>To process observations into actions, our controllers utilize an Actor-Critic architecture. Because we use Proximal
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state. The centralized motor receives this hidden state and outputs the joint offsets for all actuators
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simultaneously. This is mathematically equivalent to using one large MLP with hidden layers, but splitting makes the
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<p>Our policy and value networks use separate input networks/feature extractors as advised by the SEL3 course assistants and the blog. For continuous actions this should allow better learning at a small cost.</p>
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<pre class="mermaid"><code>graph TD
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Crit --> OutCrit</code></pre>
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Prop -.->|"message passing"|Prop</code></pre>
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<h2 id="implementation-details-network-depth">Implementation Details (Network Depth)</h2>
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<p><strong>References</strong></p>
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<ul>
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<li>Ha, D. (2017, October 29). A Visual Guide to Evolution Strategies. 大トロ ・ Machine Learning. <a href="https://blog.otoro.net/2017/10/29/visual-evolution-strategies/">https://blog.otoro.net/2017/10/29/visual-evolution-strategies/</a></li>
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<li>Schulman, John, Filip Wolski, Prafulla Dhariwal, Alec Radford, and Oleg Klimov. ‘Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms’. arXiv:1707.06347. Preprint, arXiv, 28 August 2017. <a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1707.06347">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1707.06347</a>.</li>
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<li>Wang, Tingwu, Renjie Liao, Jimmy Ba, and S. Fidler. ‘NerveNet: Learning Structured Policy with Graph Neural Networks’. Conference paper presented at International Conference on Learning Representations. 15 February 2018. <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/NerveNet:-Learning-Structured-Policy-with-Graph-Wang-Liao/249408527106d7595d45dd761dd53c83e5a02613">https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/NerveNet:-Learning-Structured-Policy-with-Graph-Wang-Liao/249408527106d7595d45dd761dd53c83e5a02613</a>.</li>
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