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Revisiting Mixture Policies in Entropy-Regularized Actor-Critic

Researchers propose a marginalized reparameterization (MRP) estimator to enable practical use of mixture policies in reinforcement learning, addressing a long-standing gap between theoretical potential and practical implementation. By reducing variance compared to likelihood-ratio methods, MRP mixture policies achieve performance parity with standard Gaussian policies while offering greater flexibility in continuous action spaces.