Trust Region Policy Optimization (TRPO) Explained

The Reinforcement Learning algorithm TRPO builds upon natural policy gradient algorithms, ensuring updates remain within ‘trustworthy’ policy regions

Wouter van Heeswijk, PhD
Towards Data Science
12 min readOct 12, 2022

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The paper describing OpenAI’s Trust Region Policy Optimization (TRPO) algorithm, authored by Schulman et al. (2015), is foundational…

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