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  # pytorch-a2c-ppo-acktr
  
  ## Update (April 12th, 2021)
  
  PPO is great, but Soft Actor Critic can be better for many continuous control tasks. Please check out my new RL repository in jax.
  
  ## Please use hyper parameters from this readme. With other hyper parameters things might not work (it's RL after all)!
  
  This is a PyTorch implementation of

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  # pytorch-a2c-ppo-acktr
  
  This repository provides a foundational PyTorch implementation of key deep reinforcement learning algorithms: Advantage Actor Critic (A2C), Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), Scalable trust-region method for deep reinforcement learning using Kronecker-factored approximation (ACKTR), and Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL). It was one of the earliest and most influential PyTorch implementations of these methods, inspired by OpenAI baselines and tuned for Atari games.
  
  ## Update (April 12th, 2021)
  
  PPO is great, but Soft Actor Critic can be better for many continuous control tasks. Please check out my new RL repository in jax.
  
  ## Please use hyper parameters from this readme. With other hyper parameters things might not work (it's RL after all)!
  
  This is a PyTorch implementation of

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  https://ikostrikov.github.io/

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  ## Comparison to other libraries
  
  This repository provides clean, foundational PyTorch implementations of specific deep reinforcement learning algorithms (A2C, PPO, ACKTR, GAIL), serving as a valuable reference for understanding these methods. While it was an early and influential work, for production-grade applications or a broader range of actively maintained algorithms, consider more comprehensive frameworks like Stable Baselines3 or RLlib.

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