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most citedCategorical Reparameterization with Gumbel-Softmax

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cs.RO2016★ 41 cited

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation with Asynchronous Off-Policy Updates

Shixiang Gu, Ethan Holly, Timothy Lillicrap +1

Reinforcement learning holds the promise of enabling autonomous robots to learn large repertoires of behavioral skills with minimal human intervention. However, robotic application…

cs.LG2016★ 24 cited

Sequence Tutor: Conservative Fine-Tuning of Sequence Generation Models with KL-control

Natasha Jaques, Shixiang Gu, Dzmitry Bahdanau +3

This paper proposes a general method for improving the structure and quality of sequences generated by a recurrent neural network (RNN), while maintaining information originally le…

cs.LG2016★ 98 cited

Q-Prop: Sample-Efficient Policy Gradient with An Off-Policy Critic

Shixiang Gu, Timothy Lillicrap, Zoubin Ghahramani +2

Model-free deep reinforcement learning (RL) methods have been successful in a wide variety of simulated domains. However, a major obstacle facing deep RL in the real world is their…

stat.ML2016★ 3.3k cited

Categorical Reparameterization with Gumbel-Softmax

Eric Jang, Shixiang Gu, Ben Poole

Categorical variables are a natural choice for representing discrete structure in the world. However, stochastic neural networks rarely use categorical latent variables due to the…

cs.LG2016★ 320 cited

Continuous Deep Q-Learning with Model-based Acceleration

Shixiang Gu, Timothy Lillicrap, Ilya Sutskever +1

Model-free reinforcement learning has been successfully applied to a range of challenging problems, and has recently been extended to handle large neural network policies and value…