AI engineering glossary · Reinforcement learning

What is rainbow?

Rainbow (also called Rainbow DQN): A combined agent that integrates six improvements to the deep Q-network: double learning, prioritised replay, dueling design, multi-step targets, distributional values and noisy layers. It showed that these pieces are complementary on Atari benchmarks.

Level: advancedTopic: Reinforcement learning

Rainbow: an example

Ablation studies remove one component at a time to measure its contribution.

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Rainbow is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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