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Deep Exploration via Bootstrapped DQN

NeurIPS 2016 · Reinforcement learning › Policy gradient and actor-critic · approach: Regularized scalable deep value learning · 451 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Bootstrapped DQN vs DQN on AUC-100 averageBootstrapped DQN · Atari 14 gamesAUC-100: 0.29 -> 0.62Helped
Remove gradient rescaling by 1/K (Boot-DQN+ vs Boot-DQN) (ablation)Bootstrapped DQN · Atari 14 gamesAUC-100: 0.41 -> 0.62Helped
Normalize shared-network gradients by 1/K (ablation)Bootstrapped DQN · Atarifinal score / early learningMixed
Increase number of bootstrap heads K (ablation)Bootstrapped DQN · Breakoutcumulative rewardHelped
Vary data-sharing probability p (0.5 vs 1) (ablation)Bootstrapped DQN · Ataricumulative rewardNo clear effect
Bootstrapped DQN replaces epsilon-greedy explorationDQN · Atari 49 gamesframes to human performance: 30% fasterHelped
Bootstrapped DQN vs DDQN on peak scoreBootstrapped DQN · Atari 49 gamesmax evaluation scoreNo clear effect
Bootstrapped DQN vs DQN on Bowling AUC-100Bootstrapped DQN · Atari BowlingAUC-100: 0.24 -> 0.56Helped
Bootstrapped DQN vs DQN on Breakout peak score (DDQN)Bootstrapped DQN · Atari Breakoutmax evaluation score: 437.0 -> 855.0Helped
Bootstrapped DQN vs DDQN on Seaquest peak scoreBootstrapped DQN · Atari Seaquestmax evaluation score: 19183.9 -> 9083.1Hurt
Bootstrapped DQN on Montezuma's RevengeBootstrapped DQN · Atari Montezuma Revengemax evaluation score: 0.0 -> 100.0Helped
Bootstrapped DQN vs DQN on Pong AUC-100Bootstrapped DQN · Atari PongAUC-100: -0.13 -> 0.02Helped

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