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Hauptverfasser: Mahran, Youssef, Gamal, Zeyad, El-Badawy, Ayman
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18336
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author Mahran, Youssef
Gamal, Zeyad
El-Badawy, Ayman
author_facet Mahran, Youssef
Gamal, Zeyad
El-Badawy, Ayman
contents This paper explores the impact of dynamic entropy tuning in Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms that train a stochastic policy. Its performance is compared against algorithms that train a deterministic one. Stochastic policies optimize a probability distribution over actions to maximize rewards, while deterministic policies select a single deterministic action per state. The effect of training a stochastic policy with both static entropy and dynamic entropy and then executing deterministic actions to control the quadcopter is explored. It is then compared against training a deterministic policy and executing deterministic actions. For the purpose of this research, the Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) algorithm was chosen for the stochastic algorithm while the Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (TD3) was chosen for the deterministic algorithm. The training and simulation results show the positive effect the dynamic entropy tuning has on controlling the quadcopter by preventing catastrophic forgetting and improving exploration efficiency.
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spellingShingle Dynamic Entropy Tuning in Reinforcement Learning Low-Level Quadcopter Control: Stochasticity vs Determinism
Mahran, Youssef
Gamal, Zeyad
El-Badawy, Ayman
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
This paper explores the impact of dynamic entropy tuning in Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms that train a stochastic policy. Its performance is compared against algorithms that train a deterministic one. Stochastic policies optimize a probability distribution over actions to maximize rewards, while deterministic policies select a single deterministic action per state. The effect of training a stochastic policy with both static entropy and dynamic entropy and then executing deterministic actions to control the quadcopter is explored. It is then compared against training a deterministic policy and executing deterministic actions. For the purpose of this research, the Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) algorithm was chosen for the stochastic algorithm while the Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (TD3) was chosen for the deterministic algorithm. The training and simulation results show the positive effect the dynamic entropy tuning has on controlling the quadcopter by preventing catastrophic forgetting and improving exploration efficiency.
title Dynamic Entropy Tuning in Reinforcement Learning Low-Level Quadcopter Control: Stochasticity vs Determinism
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18336