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This is an educational article about the Advantage Actor Critic (A2C) algorithm, part of a deep reinforcement learning course.
It explains the problem of variance in Reinforce and introduces Actor-Critic methods to reduce variance.
Advantage Actor Critic (A2C)
From the source
Today we'll study Actor-Critic methods, a hybrid architecture combining a value-based and policy-based methods that help to stabilize the training by reducing the variance:
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