pytorch / pytorch/rl

[Feature Request] Implement Efficient Ops to Compute Returns

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Since Aug 29, 2022.

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Description

In RL algorithms, it is every common to compute return-like things from trajectories. It is inefficient to compute such returns with normal python for-loops. In order to improve efficiency, we'd better to abstract some general return ops and implement efficient PyTorch kernels. Some examples of such returns are listed below.

  1. TD-lambda return
  2. GAE in PPO
  3. ...

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