REINFORCE scales the gradient of each action by the return that follows it. This return is the reward to go: the discounted sum of the rewards from that step to the end of the episode. A rollout buffer often holds several episodes in one array, with a done flag at the last step of each episode. ## Task Write three functions. 1. `returns_to_go(rewards, gamma)` returns the reward to go of one episode. For an episode of length $T$, $G_{T-1} = r_{T-1}$ and $G_t = r_t + \gamma G_{t+1}$ for $t < T - 1$. 2. `batch_returns(rewards, dones, gamma)` returns the reward to go for a batch of episodes that are joined in one array. When `dones[t]` is `True`, step $t$ is the last step of its episode, so $G_t = r_t$. Otherwise $G_t = r_t + \gamma G_{t+1}$. The last step of the batch has no next step. Use $G_{t+1} = 0$ there, also when its done flag is `False`. 3. `normalize(returns)` returns $(G - \mu) / (\sigma + 10^{-8})$. Here $\mu$ is the mean and $\sigma$ is the population standard deviation (`ddof = 0`). When the array has fewer than 2 values, return a copy of the values unchanged. ## Input and output | Name | Type | Shape | Meaning | |---|---|---|---| | `rewards` | float array | `(T,)` | the reward at each step | | `dones` | bool array | `(T,)` | `True` at the last step of each episode | | `gamma` | float | scalar | the discount factor, from 0 to 1 | | `returns` | float array | `(T,)` | returns to normalize | Each function returns a float array of shape `(T,)`. ## Constraints - `1 <= T <= 1000` and `0 <= gamma <= 1`. - Do not change the input arrays. - Use numpy only. ## Examples ```python returns_to_go(np.array([1.0, 0.0, 2.0]), 0.9) ``` ```text [2.62 1.8 2. ] ``` ```python rewards = np.array([1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0]) dones = np.array([False, True, False, False, True]) batch_returns(rewards, dones, 0.5) ``` ```text [1.5 1. 1.75 1.5 1. ] ``` ```python normalize(np.array([1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0])) ``` ```text [-1.34164077 -0.44721359 0.44721359 1.34164077] ```