TRFL

TRFL, developed by Google DeepMind, is a TensorFlow-based library that provides a collection of essential building blocks for reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. Pronounced “truffle,” it simplifies the implementation of RL agents by offering reusable components such as loss functions, value estimation tools, and temporal difference (TD) learning operators. The library is designed to integrate seamlessly with TensorFlow, allowing users to define differentiable RL objectives and train models using standard optimization routines. TRFL supports both CPU and GPU TensorFlow environments, though TensorFlow itself must be installed separately. It exposes clean, modular APIs for various RL methods including Q-learning, policy gradient, and actor-critic algorithms, among others. Each function returns not only the computed loss tensor but also a detailed structure containing auxiliary information like TD errors and targets.