Beyond Variance Reduction: Understanding the True Impact of Baselines on Policy Optimization

Wesley Chung, Valentin Thomas, Marlos C. Machado, Nicolas Le Roux. Beyond Variance Reduction: Understanding the True Impact of Baselines on Policy Optimization. In Marina Meila, Tong Zhang 0001, editors, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2021, 18-24 July 2021, Virtual Event. Volume 139 of Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, pages 1999-2009, PMLR, 2021. [doi]

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