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most citedBeyond variance reduction: Understanding the true impact of baselines on policy optimization

4 citations · 10 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.AI2026

NeuMoSync: End-to-End Neuromodulatory Control for Plasticity and Adaptability in Continual Learning

Seyed Roozbeh Razavi Rohani, Khashayar Khajavi, Wesley Chung +2

Continual learning (CL) requires models to learn tasks sequentially, yet deep neural networks often suffer from plasticity loss and poor knowledge transfer, which can impede their…

cs.LG2025

Preserving Plasticity in Continual Learning with Adaptive Linearity Injection

Seyed Roozbeh Razavi Rohani, Khashayar Khajavi, Wesley Chung +2

Loss of plasticity in deep neural networks is the gradual reduction in a model's capacity to incrementally learn and has been identified as a key obstacle to learning in non-statio…

cs.LG2024

Parseval Regularization for Continual Reinforcement Learning

Wesley Chung, Lynn Cherif, David Meger +1

Loss of plasticity, trainability loss, and primacy bias have been identified as issues arising when training deep neural networks on sequences of tasks -- all referring to the incr…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

The Role of Baselines in Policy Gradient Optimization

Jincheng Mei, Wesley Chung, Valentin Thomas +3

We study the effect of baselines in on-policy stochastic policy gradient optimization, and close the gap between the theory and practice of policy optimization methods. Our first c…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Beyond variance reduction: Understanding the true impact of baselines on policy optimization

Wesley Chung, Valentin Thomas, Marlos C. Machado +1

Bandit and reinforcement learning (RL) problems can often be framed as optimization problems where the goal is to maximize average performance while having access only to stochasti…

cs.LG2019

Incrementally Learning Functions of the Return

Brendan Bennett, Wesley Chung, Muhammad Zaheer +1

Temporal difference methods enable efficient estimation of value functions in reinforcement learning in an incremental fashion, and are of broader interest because they correspond…

cs.LG2019★ 4 cited

Importance Resampling for Off-policy Prediction

Matthew Schlegel, Wesley Chung, Daniel Graves +2

Importance sampling (IS) is a common reweighting strategy for off-policy prediction in reinforcement learning. While it is consistent and unbiased, it can result in high variance u…

stat.ML2018

High-confidence error estimates for learned value functions

Touqir Sajed, Wesley Chung, Martha White

Estimating the value function for a fixed policy is a fundamental problem in reinforcement learning. Policy evaluation algorithms---to estimate value functions---continue to be dev…