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stat.ML2017★ 988 cited
Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning
Tim Salimans, Jonathan Ho, Xi Chen +2
We explore the use of Evolution Strategies (ES), a class of black box optimization algorithms, as an alternative to popular MDP-based RL techniques such as Q-learning and Policy Gr…
cs.LG2017★ 75 cited
PixelCNN++: Improving the PixelCNN with Discretized Logistic Mixture Likelihood and Other Modifications
Tim Salimans, Andrej Karpathy, Xi Chen +1
PixelCNNs are a recently proposed class of powerful generative models with tractable likelihood. Here we discuss our implementation of PixelCNNs which we make available at https://…