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When Do Options Help? Policy Necrosis and Redundant Coverage in Option-Critic
Option-critic learns options: sub-policies together with a learned rule for when each one hands control back. Its headline result is that performance improves as options are added. We explain that result, with theory and experiment. First, the termination rule option-critic learns by maximising retu
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