Reinforcement Learning: Introducing Deep Q* Networks — Part 6
Last Updated on July 19, 2024 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Tan Pengshi Alvin
Originally published on Towards AI.
An adjusted framework combining Deep Q-Networks with a trainable exploration heuristic and supervision
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You may have heard of Project Q*, a leaked idea from OpenAI in the year 2023 that is rumoured to represent a major breakthrough in the research for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). While nobody knows what the project entails, I stumbled across an idea that is inspired by the name ‘Q-star’, by combining my previous knowledge in Q-Learning and my current foray into search algorithms, in particular the A* Search algorithm.
While I do not claim to have understood the meaning behind Project Q* (in fact, far from it), this article reports a new model — which I will henceforth call the Deep Q* Networks — that has demonstrated a significant upgrade in efficiency to the vanilla Deep Q-Networks that is widely used in the field of Reinforcement Learning. This article represents a continuation (Part 6) of the series of explorations in Reinforcement Learning from scratch, and one can find the introductions of Q-Learning and Deep Q-Networks in the previous articles in the series here:
Introducing the Temporal Difference family of iterative techniques to solve the Markov Decision Process
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Reinforcement Learning with continuous state spaces and gradient descent techniques
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Of note, the Deep Q-Networks applies the epsilon-greedy approach… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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