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]

@inproceedings{ChungTMR21,
  title = {Beyond Variance Reduction: Understanding the True Impact of Baselines on Policy Optimization},
  author = {Wesley Chung and Valentin Thomas and Marlos C. Machado and Nicolas Le Roux},
  year = {2021},
  url = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/chung21a.html},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/ChungTMR21},
  cites = {0},
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  pages = {1999-2009},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2021, 18-24 July 2021, Virtual Event},
  editor = {Marina Meila and Tong Zhang 0001},
  volume = {139},
  series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  publisher = {PMLR},
}