Questions tagged [reparameterization-trick]

For questions about the re-parameterization trick, which is used e.g. in VAEs.

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Is the re-parameterization trick necessary in the policy gradient method?

If we want to learn a stochastic policy with the policy gradient method, we have to sample from the distribution to get an action. Wouldn't this lead to the same issue that variational autoencoders face without the reparameterization trick, where…
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Why clamp std for reparameterization trick between -20 and 2?

In the Soft Actor Critic Paper (found here https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.01290.pdf), they use a neural network to approximate a diagonal gaussian distribution. In the sample function you can see that it has a function called reparameterize. As you can…