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Heavy-tailed Streaming Statistical Estimation
Che-Ping Tsai, Adarsh Prasad, Sivaraman Balakrishnan +1
We consider the task of heavy-tailed statistical estimation given streaming -dimensional samples. This could also be viewed as stochastic optimization under heavy-tailed distrib…
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On Proximal Policy Optimization's Heavy-tailed Gradients
Saurabh Garg, Joshua Zhanson, Emilio Parisotto +6
Modern policy gradient algorithms such as Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) rely on an arsenal of heuristics, including loss clipping and gradient clipping, to ensure successful l…