Temporal Aware Deep Reinforcement Learning

The function approximators employed by traditional image based Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms usually lack a temporal learning component and instead focus on learning the spatial component. We propose a technique wherein both temporal as well as spatial components are jointly learned. Our tested was tested with a generic DQN and it outperformed it in terms of maximum rewards as well as sample complexity. This algorithm has implications in the robotics as well as sequential decision making domains.