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Analytical Derivations
Further reading
- Huang et al. (2022) — The 37 Implementation Details of Proximal Policy Optimization — a detailed walkthrough of every engineering choice needed to reproduce PPO results in practice
PPO is an actor-critic policy gradient algorithm that constrains each update to stay close to the previous policy, stabilizing training by preventing destructively large gradient steps.
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