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Maxim Lapan
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Maxim has been working as a software developer for more than 20 years and was involved in various areas: distributed scientific computing, distributed systems and big data processing. Since 2014 he is actively using machine and deep learning to solve practical industrial tasks, such as NLP problems, RL for web crawling and web pages analysis. He has been living in Germany with his family.
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The experiment results

Unfortunately, the paper provided no details about very important aspects of the method, like training hyperparameters, how deeply cubes were scrambled during the training, and the obtained convergence. To fill in the missing blanks, I did lots of experiments with various values of hyperparameters, but still my results are very different from those published in the paper. First of all, the training convergence of the original method is very unstable. Even with a small learning rate and a large batch size, the training eventually diverges, with the value loss component growing exponentially. Examples of this behavior are shown on the figure that follows.

Figure 24.5: The policy loss (left) and value loss (right) of two runs of the paper's method

After several experiments with this, I came to the conclusion that this behavior is a result of the wrong value objective being proposed in the method. Indeed, in the formula , the value returned by the...

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Maxim Lapan

Maxim has been working as a software developer for more than 20 years and was involved in various areas: distributed scientific computing, distributed systems and big data processing. Since 2014 he is actively using machine and deep learning to solve practical industrial tasks, such as NLP problems, RL for web crawling and web pages analysis. He has been living in Germany with his family.
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