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In continuous action spaces, how is the standard deviation, associated with Gaussian distribution from which actions are sampled, represented?

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A question on AI Stack Exchange asks how the standard deviation is represented when actions are sampled from a diagonal Gaussian distribution in continuous action spaces for policy gradient methods.

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“I have a question about implementing policy gradient methods for problems with continuous action spaces. Assume that actions are sampled from a diagonal Gaussian distribution with mean vector $\mu$ and standard deviation vector $\sigma$ .”
AI Stack Exchange, 22 Sept 2026, 11:04.

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