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Critic Network Performance Analysis
An Advantage Actor-Critic (A2C) agent is being trained. The critic network is responsible for estimating the value of each state. You are given a snapshot of the training process for a single transition, with a discount factor (γ) of 0.9.
Analyze the critic network's prediction for the current state. Is the network's prediction an overestimate or an underestimate of the value, and by how much is the prediction off from the target value used for training?
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Value Network Loss Function in A2C
In a reinforcement learning agent using an actor-critic architecture, the critic network is being trained. For a given state transition, the network makes the following predictions:
- Predicted value for the current state: 15.0
- Predicted value for the next state: 20.0
The agent receives a reward of 5.0 for the transition, and the discount factor is 0.9.
Based on this single experience, how should the critic network's parameters be adjusted to minimize its loss?
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