Can I give rewards outside OnActionReceived()?

I was wondering if my agent fails to learn because I give rewards outside of

OnActionReceived

function.

My agent shots missiles, which have a custom Missile script attached. In its

FixedUpdate

missile checks for collisions. If it hits a target, I call:

Code (csharp):

1. Agent.AddReward (1f);

Would this be received and used by the learning framework?

I am rewarding a lot of other stuff in various

FixedUpdate

of other components.

 

Thanks for the reply!

Would it be completely lost, or just attached to the next step observation?

 

Quick question about this.

When OnActionRecieved() is called (formerly AgentAction() ), that means that outputs have been generated from the neural network on that tick, right?

If so, does that mean rewards defined on a given tick decision tick actually associate themselves with last-decision-tick's action/state pair?

If not, then wouldn't this depend on whether the physics update has occurred before or after the AddReward() happening in that same tick?

What I'm guessing is that unless the AddReward() happens before a decision is requested (and therefore before any outputs have a chance to change) on a decision tick, it will just get applied to next-decision-tick's action-state pair.

I have often wondered about the underlying rules of where rewards can or should be set...