Rainbow DQN — The Best Reinforcement Learning Has to Offer?

What happens if the most successful techniques in Deep Q-Learning are combined into a single algorithm?

Wouter van Heeswijk, PhD
Towards Data Science
11 min readDec 8, 2022

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Rainbow DQN performance compared to other DQN techniques. Are these results too good to be true? [source: DeepMind paper]

Reinforcement Learning has come a long way since the era of classical tabular Q-learning. Deep Q-Learning Networks (DQN) drove a revolution in the field, enabling powerful generalizations of…

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Assistant professor in Financial Engineering and Operations Research. Writing about reinforcement learning, optimization problems, and data science.