Dueling DQN

Closed weights Google DeepMind 1.7M parameters April 2016

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No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

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Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Google DeepMind
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
5 April 2016
Authors
Ziyu Wang, Tom Schaul, Matteo Hessel, Hado van Hasselt, Marc Lanctot, Nando de Freitas

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Games
Task
Atari

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Parameters
1.7M

Same parameter count as DQN

Training data
tokens

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
Unreleased
Training code
Unreleased

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Why it is tracked
SOTA improvement

"the dueling architecture enables our RL agent to outperform the state-of-the-art on the Atari 2600 domain"

Record confidence
Confident

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Dueling Network Architectures for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

About this model

Dueling DQN was published by Google DeepMind, in United States of America, in April 2016. industry is the category the publisher falls under.

It works in Games, and is recorded as doing atari.

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

How it was trained

The reason it appears in this catalogue at all is sOTA improvement.

Answers

Dueling DQN — common questions

01

Who created Dueling DQN?

Dueling DQN was published by Google DeepMind, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.

02

When was Dueling DQN released?

Dueling DQN was published in April 2016. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

03

What is Dueling DQN used for?

Dueling DQN works in Games, and is recorded as handling atari. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

04

What GPU do I need to run Dueling DQN?

None. Dueling DQN is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

05

Is Dueling DQN open source?

No. Dueling DQN has not had its weights published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

06

How many parameters does Dueling DQN have?

Dueling DQN has 1.7M parameters. Same parameter count as DQN. That figure is the total, and it is what decides how much memory the model needs — roughly half a gigabyte per billion at the compression most people use.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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