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Ran parallel actor-learners with asynchronous gradient updates to decorrelate online experience, developing asynchronous variants of value-learning and advantage actor-critic methods without relying on a replay buffer.
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The method builds on actor-critic learning, temporal-difference updates and distributed computation. Reported CPU-training, game and control gains apply to the tested configurations; they are not a global convergence guarantee for arbitrary nonlinear policies.
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Volodymyr Mnih; Adrià Puigdomènech Badia; Mehdi Mirza; Alex Graves; Tim Harley; Timothy P. Lillicrap; David Silver; Koray Kavukcuoglu
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A3C and asynchronous neural actor-learners
Ran parallel actor-learners with asynchronous gradient updates to decorrelate online experience, developing asynchronous variants of value-learning and advantage actor-critic methods without relying on a replay buffer.
Scientific scope
The method builds on actor-critic learning, temporal-difference updates and distributed computation. Reported CPU-training, game and control gains apply to the tested configurations; they are not a global convergence guarantee for arbitrary nonlinear policies.
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People and systems
Volodymyr Mnih; Adrià Puigdomènech Badia; Mehdi Mirza; Alex Graves; Tim Harley; Timothy P. Lillicrap; David Silver; Koray Kavukcuoglu
Source-listed authors or explicitly credited technical contributors for the cited versions. Family entries retain source-specific attribution; a combined list is not one original-paper byline or equal individual work. Names alone do not establish resolved identities.