scholarly journals Injective metrizability and the duality theory of cubings

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-453
Author(s):  
Jared Culbertson ◽  
Dan P. Guralnik ◽  
Peter F. Stiller
Keyword(s):  
Duality Theory

scholarly journals Fully distributed actor-critic architecture for multitask deep reinforcement learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Valcarcel Macua ◽  
Ian Davies ◽  
Aleksi Tukiainen ◽  
Enrique Munoz de Cote
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Reinforcement Learning ◽  
Duality Theory ◽  
Deep Neural Network ◽  
Original Problem ◽  
Almost Sure Convergence ◽  
Continuous Control ◽  
Access Data ◽  
Central Station ◽  
Common Policy

Abstract We propose a fully distributed actor-critic architecture, named diffusion-distributed-actor-critic Diff-DAC, with application to multitask reinforcement learning (MRL). During the learning process, agents communicate their value and policy parameters to their neighbours, diffusing the information across a network of agents with no need for a central station. Each agent can only access data from its local task, but aims to learn a common policy that performs well for the whole set of tasks. The architecture is scalable, since the computational and communication cost per agent depends on the number of neighbours rather than the overall number of agents. We derive Diff-DAC from duality theory and provide novel insights into the actor-critic framework, showing that it is actually an instance of the dual-ascent method. We prove almost sure convergence of Diff-DAC to a common policy under general assumptions that hold even for deep neural network approximations. For more restrictive assumptions, we also prove that this common policy is a stationary point of an approximation of the original problem. Numerical results on multitask extensions of common continuous control benchmarks demonstrate that Diff-DAC stabilises learning and has a regularising effect that induces higher performance and better generalisation properties than previous architectures.

A duality theory for stop-loss distributions

1978 ◽  
Vol 1978 (4) ◽  
pp. 225-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolf-Rüdiger Heilmann
Keyword(s):  
Duality Theory ◽  
Loss Distributions ◽  
Stop Loss
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