An actor critic needs an advantage for each step: how much better the action was than the critic expected. Generalized advantage estimation (GAE) mixes the one-step TD error with longer returns. The parameter $\lambda$ controls the mix. A2C and PPO use GAE on every rollout. ## Task Write two functions. 1. `td_errors(rewards, values, dones, gamma)` returns the TD error of each step: $\delta_t = r_t + \gamma (1 - d_t) V_{t+1} - V_t$. 2. `gae(rewards, values, dones, gamma, lam)` returns a tuple `(advantages, returns)`. The advantages follow the recursion from the last step to the first step: $A_{T-1} = \delta_{T-1}$ and $A_t = \delta_t + \gamma \lambda (1 - d_t) A_{t+1}$ for $t < T - 1$. The returns are the targets for the critic: $R_t = A_t + V_t$. Here $d_t$ is 1 when `dones[t]` is `True` and 0 otherwise. A done flag at step $t$ means that step $t$ is the last step of its episode. The next value and the next advantage are then 0. The array `values` has $T + 1$ entries. `values[t]` is the critic value of the state at step $t$. `values[T]` is the bootstrap value: the critic value of the state after the last step. It is used only when the last step has no done flag. ## Input and output | Name | Type | Shape | Meaning | |---|---|---|---| | `rewards` | float array | `(T,)` | the reward at each step | | `values` | float array | `(T + 1,)` | the critic value of each state, then the bootstrap value | | `dones` | bool array | `(T,)` | `True` at the last step of each episode | | `gamma` | float | scalar | the discount factor, from 0 to 1 | | `lam` | float | scalar | the GAE parameter $\lambda$, from 0 to 1 | - `td_errors` returns a float array of shape `(T,)`. - `gae` returns a tuple of two float arrays, each of shape `(T,)`: the advantages, then the returns. ## Constraints - `1 <= T <= 1000`. - Do not normalize the advantages. Normalization is a separate step. - Do not change the input arrays. - Use numpy only. ## Examples ```python rewards = np.array([1.0, 0.0, 1.0]) values = np.array([0.5, 0.4, 0.3, 0.2]) dones = np.array([False, False, True]) td_errors(rewards, values, dones, 0.9) ``` ```text [ 0.86 -0.13 0.7 ] ``` ```python gae(rewards, values, dones, 0.9, 0.8) ``` ```text (array([1.12928, 0.374 , 0.7 ]), array([1.62928, 0.774 , 1. ])) ``` ```python rewards = np.array([1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0]) values = np.array([1.0, 2.0, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0]) dones = np.array([False, True, False, False]) gae(rewards, values, dones, 0.5, 0.5) ``` ```text (array([ 0.75 , -1. , 1.125, 0.5 ]), array([1.75 , 1. , 2.125, 2.5 ])) ```