Policy Gradient With Serial Markov Chain Reasoning

Authors: Edoardo Cetin, Oya Celiktutan

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental We obtain state-of-the-art results for popular benchmarks from the Open AI Gym Mujoco suite [29] and the Deep Mind Control suite from pixels [30]. We evaluate the serial Markov chain reasoning framework by comparing its performance with current state-of-the-art baselines based on traditional RL. We consider 6 challenging Mujoco tasks from Gym [29, 56] and 12 tasks pixel-based tasks from the Deep Mind Control Suite (DMC) [30].
Researcher Affiliation Academia Edoardo Cetin Department of Engineering King s College London edoardo.cetin@kcl.ac.uk Oya Celiktutan Department of Engineering King s College London oya.celiktutan@kcl.ac.uk
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 Agent Acting input: s, current state a0 ˆA N 0 Rp +1 while Rp > 1.1 do ( |a N) N N + 1 Update Rp with a1:N . Eq.16 ˆ N ˆ N + (1 )N . 2 [0, 1) ˆA ˆA [ a1:N output: a a1:N Algorithm 2 Agent Learning input: D, data buffer (s, a, s0, r) D a0 b ( |a, s0) for n 0, d ˆ Ne do Qs φ(s0, an) . Eq. 8 n+1 N(0, 1), an+1 = f b(an, s, n+1) r Qs n) . Thm. 3.2 arg min J( ) . Eq. 6 a0 a1:d ˆ Ne arg minφ J(φ) . Eq. 7
Open Source Code Yes We provide our implementation for transparency and to facilitate future extensions at sites.google.com/view/serial-mcr/.
Open Datasets Yes We consider 6 challenging Mujoco tasks from Gym [29, 56] and 12 tasks pixel-based tasks from the Deep Mind Control Suite (DMC) [30].
Dataset Splits No The paper does not explicitly provide specific train/validation/test dataset splits with percentages or absolute counts for reproducibility. It mentions evaluation rollouts but not data partitioning for model training.
Hardware Specification No The paper states "See Section D of the Appendix" for details on compute and resources used. However, Appendix D is not provided in the given text, so specific hardware details are not available.
Software Dependencies No The paper mentions general software components like 'Max Ent RL' and 'Rliable' but does not provide specific version numbers for any software dependencies within the provided text.
Experiment Setup No The paper refers to 'App. C or the code for full details' regarding design choices and training procedures, and 'App. E' for further ablation studies. However, these appendices are not included in the provided text, so specific experimental setup details are not available.