Policy Gradient in One Minute

This is a (very) quick, one-minute summary of the development of Policy Gradient algorithms over the past 30 years. Check out this video for a more detailed explanation. https://youtu.be/mg-iU-WxiNs References: - REINFORCE https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF00992696.pdf - Actor-critic: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01783 - GAE: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02438 - TRPO: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05477 - PPO: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06347 - GRPO: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03300 - DeepSeek-R1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948 - Dr. GRPO: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20783 Video mad…