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Answer by Neil Slater for In online one step actor critic, why does the...

This "decay" of later values is a direct consequence of the episodic formula for the objective function for REINFORCE:$$J(\theta) = v_{\pi_\theta}(s_0)$$That is, the expected return from the first...

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The Reinforcement Learning Book by Richard Sutton et al, section 13.5 shows an online actor critic algorithm.Why do the weights updates depend on the discount factor via $I$?It seems that the more we...

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