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Kaushik Balakrishnan
Kaushik Balakrishnan
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Kaushik Balakrishnan

Kaushik Balakrishnan works for BMW in Silicon Valley, and applies reinforcement learning, machine learning, and computer vision to solve problems in autonomous driving. Previously, he also worked at Ford Motor Company and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His primary expertise is in machine learning, computer vision, and high-performance computing, and he has worked on several projects involving both research and industrial applications. He has also worked on numerical simulations of rocket landings on planetary surfaces, and for this he developed several high-fidelity models that run efficiently on supercomputers. He holds a PhD in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Chapter 4

  1. DQN is known to overestimate the state-action value function, Q(s,a). To overcome this, DDQN was introduced. DDQN has fewer problems than DQN regarding the overestimation of Q(s,a).
  2. Dueling network architecture has separate streams for the advantage function and the state-value function. These are then combined to obtain Q(s,a). This branching out and then combining is observed to result in a more stable training of the RL agent.
  1. Prioritized Experience Replay (PER) gives more importance to experience samples where the agent performs poorly, and so these samples are sampled more frequently than other samples where the agent performed well. By frequently using samples where the agent performed poorly, the agent is able to work on its weakness more often, and so PER speeds up the training.
  2. In some computer games, such as Atari Breakout, the simulator has too many frames...
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Kaushik Balakrishnan

Kaushik Balakrishnan works for BMW in Silicon Valley, and applies reinforcement learning, machine learning, and computer vision to solve problems in autonomous driving. Previously, he also worked at Ford Motor Company and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His primary expertise is in machine learning, computer vision, and high-performance computing, and he has worked on several projects involving both research and industrial applications. He has also worked on numerical simulations of rocket landings on planetary surfaces, and for this he developed several high-fidelity models that run efficiently on supercomputers. He holds a PhD in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.
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