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Monte Carlo tree search in JAX
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What is "millions of frames" in the plots in the paper? #58

Closed p3achyjr closed 1 year ago

p3achyjr commented 1 year ago

Hello, thank you again for the paper and the associated code :)

I noticed that in the paper, most plots use "millions of frames" on the x-axis:

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What does this metric mean? Is it number of NN queries, number of games, training examples, or something else entirely?

fidlej commented 1 year ago

Thanks for asking. It is the number of frames generated by the environment. For example, on Atari, we count also the skipped frames.