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Topic: policy-gradients

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Soft Q-learning and policy gradients are secretly the same — Inblix summary
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Soft Q-learning and policy gradients are secretly the same

OpenAI Blog · Jul 20, 2026 · 2 min read

Reinforcement learning has a weird schism at its heart. On one side, you've got policy gradient methods like A3C, which...

OpenAI scraps A3C's async trick, says ACKTR is 10-25% pricier but far better — Inblix summary
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OpenAI scraps A3C's async trick, says ACKTR is 10-25% pricier but far better

OpenAI Blog · Jul 20, 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI's latest Baselines release buries a quiet admission: the "asynchronous" part of A3C, the influential algorithm t...