Vanilla REINFORCE implementation

[alek5k]

Hello,

Is there any benefit to having a vanilla REINFORCE algorithm for people trying to learn the concepts? REINFORCE with Baseline includes a value function approximator which has a lot of similarities to the Actor Critic.

I think being able to see a pure policy gradient method could be useful as a learning tool, otherwise people may assume Policy Gradient methods have to have some kind of value function approximation too.

[makaveli10]

Look at this if you want to see the high variance results of Vanilla reinforce

[vieveks]

Can I implement the vanilla REINFORCE ?