ikostrikov/pytorch-a2c-ppo-acktr-gail

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  ## 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
  * Advantage Actor Critic (A2C), a synchronous deterministic version of A3C
  * Proximal Policy Optimization PPO
  * Scalable trust-region method for deep reinforcement learning using Kronecker-factored approximation ACKTR
  * Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning GAIL

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  This repository offers well-tuned PyTorch implementations of 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 serves as a robust baseline for deep reinforcement learning research and practice, particularly effective for Atari games and supporting environments like MuJoCo and PyBullet. While newer algorithms like Soft Actor Critic (SAC) may excel in some continuous control tasks, this repository remains a valuable resource for these foundational PyTorch implementations. Please use the provided hyperparameters for optimal results.

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  # pytorch-a2c-ppo-acktr

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  # pytorch-a2c-ppo-acktr-gail

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