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NeurIPS 2016 · Reinforcement learning › Visual and representation RL · approach: RL for combinatorial routing · 80 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
add structured exploration (noisy Gaussian channel) to STRAW (ablation)STRAW · Atari Frostbitescore: 4394 -> 8108Helped
add structured exploration to STRAW (ablation)STRAW · Atari Q-bertscore: 20933 -> 23892Helped
add structured exploration to STRAW (ablation)STRAW · Atari Amidarscore: 2223 -> 2022Hurt
add structured exploration to STRAW (ablation)STRAW · Atari Alienscore: 2626 -> 3230Helped
replace LSTM with STRAWeLSTM · Atari Frostbitescore: 1281 -> 8108Helped
replace LSTM with STRAWeLSTM · Atari Ms. Pacmanscore: 4227 -> 6902Helped
replace LSTM with STRAWLSTM · Atari Breakoutscore: 644 -> 344Hurt
replace FF baseline with STRAWeFF · Atari Heroscore: 39929 -> 36931Hurt
replace FF with STRAWeFF · Atari Ms. Pacmanscore: 2014 -> 6902Helped
learn when to re-plan versus re-plan at every step or random commitment of 0 to 4 steps (ablation)STRAW · Ms. Pacman ablation (100 epochs)episode rewardHelped
increase Gaussian channel dimensionality (ablation)STRAWe · Ms. Pacman ablation (100 epochs)episode rewardMixed
curriculum maze with increasing goal distance: STRAWe versus LSTMSTRAWe · 15x15 random mazesepisode rewardHelped

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