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Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) introduced in paper: Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms (Schulman et al., 2017).
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- Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)
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- Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms (Schulman et al., 2017)
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- ppo · reinforcement-learning · foundational · schulman · 2017 · openai · rlhf
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[1] preprint · arXiv (Schulman, Wolski, Dhariwal, Radford, Klimov) · 2017-07-20
Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms“We propose a new family of policy gradient methods for reinforcement learning, which alternate between sampling data through interaction with the environment, and optimizing a "surrogate" objective function using stochastic gradient ascent.”
[2] official blog · OpenAI · 2017-07-20
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