Probability distributions used for the different action spaces:
CategoricalDistribution
-> DiscreteDiagGaussianDistribution
-> Box (continuous actions)StateDependentNoiseDistribution
-> Box (continuous actions) whenuse_sde=True
The policy networks output parameters for the distributions (named flat
in the methods). Actions are then sampled from those distributions.
For instance, in the case of discrete actions. The policy network outputs probability of taking each action. The CategoricalDistribution
allows to sample from it, computes the entropy, the log probability (log_prob
) and backpropagate the gradient.
In the case of continuous actions, a Gaussian distribution is used. The policy network outputs mean and (log) std of the distribution (assumed to be a DiagGaussianDistribution
).
stable_baselines3.common.distributions