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kv_store based asynchronous RL method #16

Closed peterzcc closed 6 years ago

peterzcc commented 8 years ago

Given that the multi-threading performance of MXNet looks pretty limited, we only have two choices that can fully utilize all the processors:

  1. use a local machine distributed training method.
  2. switch our religion to tensorflow.

However, the problem with choice 2 is that tensorflow does not seem to be flexible and readable enough.

So we may choose the first one. The major work to do this is to modify the dmlc_local.py in order to support user created worker process as multiprocessing.Process. I can investigate it later after finished tuning a continuous control RL algorithm.