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Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning: Integrating Temporal Abstraction and Intrinsic Motivation

NeurIPS 2016 · Reinforcement learning › Visual and representation RL · approach: Hierarchical skills and priors · 822 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
add hierarchical goal-conditioned Q-estimators with intrinsic rewards over Q-learningQ-Learning · Stochastic decision processaverage extrinsic reward: 0.01 -> 0.13Helped
add intrinsic goal-directed hierarchy over flat DQNDQN · Montezuma's Revengescore: 0 -> +400Helped
compare h-DQN against Gorila DQNGorila DQN · Montezuma's Revengescore: 4.16 -> +400Helped
two-phase training: pre-train controller with meta-controller epsilon 1, then joint trainingh-DQN · Montezuma's Revengereward: 2.3 million pre-train steps, then 2 million joint stepsHelped

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