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Actor-Critic

Reinforcement learning architecture combining an actor network that learns a stochastic policy and a critic network that estimates the value function to reduce the policy gradient variance.

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Value Function

Mathematical function estimating the expected cumulative return from a state or state-action pair, serving as the learning signal for the critic in the Actor-Critic architecture.

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Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic

Distributed architecture where multiple agents train in parallel on independent environments, periodically sharing their gradients to accelerate learning.

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Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient

Actor-Critic algorithm for continuous action spaces using deep neural networks with deterministic policy and replay buffer for stable off-policy learning.

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Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient

Improvement over DDPG using twin critics to reduce value overestimation and delayed updates of the actor and targets for better stability.

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Soft Actor-Critic

Actor-Critic algorithm maximizing an entropy-augmented reward combining return and entropy to encourage exploration, using stable and efficient off-policy updates.

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Advantage Actor-Critic

Synchronous variant of A3C using advantage estimation to reduce policy gradient variance, with batch updates for better stability on GPU.

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Critic Network

Neural network estimating the value function V(s) or Q(s,a) to provide the TD learning signal to the actor, using prediction error as optimization gradient.