Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic (A3C)

Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic (A3C)

• https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01783v2
• https://paperswithcode.com/method/a3c

A3C, Asynchronous Advantage Actor Critic, is a policy gradient algorithm in reinforcement learning that maintains a policy and an estimate of the value function . It operates in the forward view and uses a mix of $n$-step returns to update both the policy and the value-function.