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Improving Sample Efficiency in Evolutionary RL Using Off-Policy Ranking
Eshwar S R, Shishir Kolathaya, Gugan Thoppe
Evolution Strategy (ES) is a powerful black-box optimization technique based on the idea of natural evolution. In each of its iterations, a key step entails ranking candidate solut…
cs.LG2022
Does DQN Learn?
Aditya Gopalan, Gugan Thoppe
A primary requirement for any reinforcement learning method is that it should produce policies that improve upon the initial guess. In this work, we show that the widely used Deep…