Reinforcement learning· 2015
High-Dimensional Continuous Control Using Generalized Advantage Estimation
On the reading lists
- #404 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #19 in Reinforcement learning (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Introduced GAE, a cornerstone variance-reduction technique for modern policy-gradient algorithms.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2015 (from arXiv 1506.02438)
- Published
- 2016
- Citations
- 5,052 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.379 · computed rank 404 · consensus 0.45, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.696 (2010s · reinforcement-learning), awards 0, existing lists 0. 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.