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Abhishek Naik on Continuing RL & Average Reward

TalkRL: The Reinforcement Learning Podcast

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Evolving Average Reward Methods in Reinforcement Learning

This chapter explores the transition from discounted reward methods to innovative reward centering in reinforcement learning, detailing its impact on agent performance and learning stability. It highlights the integration of reward centering into algorithms like Q-learning and the significance of the parameter eta in average reward contexts. The discussion also clarifies misconceptions around immediate versus average rewards and examines how differential value functions contribute to these concepts.

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