Zebras and the Anna Karenina Principle

By J. Diamond. 1994

Subfields: Social Sciences & Humanities

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• Prioritized Experience Replay (2015, background): “…to modulate prioritization by not treating positive TD-errors the same than negative ones; we can for example invoke the Anna Karenina principle (Diamond, 1994), interpreted to mean that there are many ways in which a transition can be less good than expected, but only one in which can be…”