Tag: TRPO
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Understanding PPO from first principles
Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm is arguably the default choice in modern reinforcement learning (RL) libraries. In this post we understand how to derive PPO from first principles. First, we brush up our memory on the underlying Markov Decision Process (MDP) model. 1. Preliminaries on Markov Decision Process (MDP) In an MDP, an agent (say,…