Title: A Deeper Look at Experience Replay,
Abstract: Recently experience replay is widely used in various deep reinforcement
learning (RL) algorithms, in this paper we rethink the utility of experience
replay. It introduces a new hyper-parameter, the memory buffer size, which
needs carefully tuning. However unfortunately the importance of this new
hyper-parameter has been underestimated in the community for a long time. In
this paper we did a systematic empirical study of experience replay under
various function representations. We showcase that a large replay buffer can
significantly hurt the performance. Moreover, we propose a simple O(1) method
to remedy the negative influence of a large replay buffer. We showcase its
utility in both simple grid world and challenging domains like Atari games.