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# Asynchronous Distributed Reinforcement Learning for LQR Control via Zeroth-Order Block Coordinate Descent

@article{Jing2021AsynchronousDR,
title={Asynchronous Distributed Reinforcement Learning for LQR Control via Zeroth-Order Block Coordinate Descent},
author={Gangshan Jing and He Bai and Jemin George and Aranya Chakrabortty and Piyush Kumar Sharma},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2021},
volume={abs/2107.12416}
}
Recently introduced distributed zeroth-order optimization (ZOO) algorithms have shown their utility in distributed reinforcement learning (RL). Unfortunately, in the gradient estimation process, almost all of them require random samples with the same dimension as the global variable and/or require evaluation of the global cost function, which may induce high estimation variance for large-scale networks. In this paper, we propose a novel distributed zeroth-order algorithm by leveraging the… Expand

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