Bayesian policy gradient algorithms

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 457-464

  Ghavamzadeh, Mohammad ^a   Engel, Yaakov ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; GRADIENT ESTIMATES; MONTE CARLO; NATURAL GRADIENT; NUMBER OF SAMPLES; PARAMETERIZED; POLICY GRADIENT; POLICY GRADIENT METHODS;

ESTIMATION; GRADIENT METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84864065133     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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