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Dissecting Discrete Soft Actor-Critic: Limitations and Principled Alternatives
Reza Asad, Reza Babanezhad, Sharan Vaswani
While Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) is highly effective in continuous control, its discrete counterpart (DSAC) performs poorly on challenging discrete-action domains such as Atari. Conse…
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Armijo Line-search Can Make (Stochastic) Gradient Descent Provably Faster
Sharan Vaswani, Reza Babanezhad
Armijo line-search (Armijo-LS) is a standard method to set the step-size for gradient descent (GD). For smooth functions, Armijo-LS alleviates the need to know the global smoothnes…