Reinforcement learning· 2016
Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
On the reading lists
- #132 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #11 in Reinforcement learning (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Popularized parallel actor-critic training, stabilizing deep RL without experience replay.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2016 (from arXiv 1602.01783)
- Citations
- 10,427 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.617 · computed rank 132 · consensus 0.71, must-read 0.5, citations percentile 0.87 (2010s · reinforcement-learning), awards 0, existing lists 0.5. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each count names its source. See the method.