MishaLaskin / curl

CURL: Contrastive Unsupervised Representation Learning for Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning
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What is "ema"? #18

Closed slerman12 closed 3 years ago

slerman12 commented 3 years ago

In CURL.encode, what is the arg "ema"?

MishaLaskin commented 3 years ago

exponentially moving average of the key encoder

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In CURL.encode, what is the arg "ema"?

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slerman12 commented 3 years ago

It just occurred to me that query and key have different encoders. Is there a reason for this?

MishaLaskin commented 3 years ago

Yes - referring you to MoCo https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05722 or you could read the implementation section of the CURL paper

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