@inproceedings{Zheng2018SelfAdaptiveDB,
author={Zhuobin Zheng and Chun Yuan and Zhihui Lin and Yangyang Cheng and Hanghao Wu},
booktitle={IJCAI},
year={2018}
}
• Published in IJCAI 1 July 2018
• Computer Science
Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) algorithm has been successful for state-of-the-art performance in high-dimensional continuous control tasks. [] Key Method To alleviate the instability, a self-adaptive confidence mechanism is introduced to dynamically adjust the weights of bootstrapped heads and enhance the ensemble performance effectively and efficiently. We demonstrate that SOUP achieves faster learning by at least 45% while improving cumulative reward and stability substantially in comparison to…

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