Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing DDPG Reinforcement Learning in PyTorch

Build an intelligent Agent using DDPG, an advanced deep-learning RL algorithm.

Renu Khandelwal
10 min readMar 19, 2023
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Prerequisites

Essential elements of Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning: Temporal Difference Learning

Reinforcement Learning: Q-Learning

Deep Q Learning: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

Unlocking the secrets of Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning- A beginners guide

Unlock the secrets of DDPG in Reinforcement Learning

Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient(DDPG) is the model-free, off-policy deep reinforcement algorithm inspired by Deep Q-Network and is based on Actor-Critic using Policy Gradient

The key components of DDPG are

  • Replay Buffer
  • Actor-Critic neural network
  • Exploration Noise
  • Target network
  • Soft Target Updates for Target Network

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