74 - Deep Reinforcement Learning Doesn't Work Yet, with Alex Irpan
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English - November 16, 2018 23:56 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Blog post by Alex Irpan titled "Deep Reinforcement Learning Doesn't Work Yet"
https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html
In this episode, Alex Irpan talks about limitations of current deep reinforcement learning methods and why we have a long way to go before they go mainstream. We discuss sample inefficiency, instability, the difficulty to design reward functions and overfitting to the environment. Alex concludes with a list of recommendations he found useful when training models with deep reinforcement learning.