arxivcs.LGcs.AI2026-07-14
Deconstructing Actor-Critic: A Large-scale Empirical Study of Design Components for Practitioners
Haseeb Shah, Lingwei Zhu, Adam White, Martha White
Reinforcement learning is increasingly being considered for controlling real-world systems, from fusion plasma and autonomous vehicles to drug discovery and drinking water treatment, where reliability is essential and tuning budgets are limited. Actor-critic algorithms share a se…