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The Actor and the Target: Mastering the Dynamics of Influence
The world is a stage, and we are all players, each with our own roles and objectives. Understanding the intricate relationship between “the actor” (the influencer) and “the target” (the audience) is paramount to success, whether you’re a marketer crafting a campaign, a leader inspiring a team, or an artist captivating an audience. This post delves deep into this dynamic, exploring strategies for effective influence and highlighting the crucial elements that bridge the gap between intent and impact. We'll analyze the psychology behind persuasion, offer actionable techniques, and empower you to become a master of influence.
Understanding the Actor-Target Relationship: A Foundation for Influence
The core of any successful influence strategy lies in a thorough understanding of the actor-target relationship. This isn't simply about broadcasting a message; it’s about forging a connection. The "actor," whether an individual or an organization, needs to resonate with the "target" on a deeper level. This requires careful consideration of several key aspects:
#### 1. Identifying Your Target: Beyond Demographics
Simply knowing the age, gender, and location of your target audience isn't sufficient. You need to understand their values, motivations, aspirations, and pain points. What keeps them up at night? What are their deepest desires? Effective targeting goes beyond demographics; it delves into psychographics – understanding the inner workings of your audience's minds.
#### 2. Crafting a Compelling Narrative: Storytelling for Impact
Humans are inherently drawn to stories. A compelling narrative is far more effective than a dry recitation of facts. Frame your message within a narrative that resonates with your target audience's experiences and emotions. This makes your message memorable and fosters a deeper connection.
#### 3. Choosing the Right Channel: Matching Message to Medium
The channel you choose to communicate your message is critical. A powerful message delivered through an inappropriate channel will fall flat. Consider your target audience's preferred communication methods and tailor your approach accordingly. Are they active on social media? Do they prefer email newsletters? Choosing the right channel maximizes your reach and impact.
Strategies for Effective Influence: Bridging the Gap
Moving beyond understanding the actor-target dynamic, let's explore concrete strategies for maximizing influence:
#### 1. Building Trust and Credibility: The Foundation of Persuasion
Trust is the bedrock of any successful influence strategy. Establish your credibility through expertise, transparency, and authenticity. Demonstrate your understanding of your target audience's needs and concerns. Building trust takes time and consistent effort, but it's an invaluable investment.
#### 2. Employing Persuasive Language and Techniques: The Art of Rhetoric
Mastering the art of persuasion involves using language strategically. Employ techniques like storytelling, emotional appeals, and logical reasoning to effectively convey your message. Avoid jargon and overly technical language that might alienate your target audience. Focus on clarity and conciseness.
#### 3. Leveraging Social Proof and Testimonials: The Power of Validation
Social proof is a powerful influencer. Showcasing positive reviews, testimonials, and case studies validates your claims and increases the likelihood of your target audience taking action. People are more likely to trust a product or service that others have already endorsed.
#### 4. Understanding and Addressing Objections: Navigating Resistance
Anticipating and addressing potential objections is crucial. Acknowledge your target audience's concerns and provide compelling counterarguments. This shows that you understand their perspective and are genuinely trying to help them.
Measuring Impact and Refining Your Approach: The Iterative Process
Effective influence isn't a one-time event; it's an iterative process. Continuously monitor your results, analyze your data, and adapt your strategies based on what you learn. Track key metrics such as engagement, conversion rates, and customer feedback to refine your approach and maximize your impact.
Conclusion
The relationship between the actor and the target is a dynamic interplay of understanding, communication, and strategic action. By thoroughly understanding your audience, crafting compelling narratives, choosing the right channels, and employing persuasive techniques, you can significantly increase your influence and achieve your objectives. Remember that building trust, addressing objections, and iteratively refining your approach are key to long-term success in any field.
FAQs
1. How can I identify my target audience's pain points effectively? Conduct thorough market research, utilize surveys and questionnaires, analyze customer feedback, and monitor social media conversations to understand their challenges and frustrations.
2. What are some examples of compelling narratives in marketing? Think of storytelling around customer journeys, showcasing problem-solving scenarios, and highlighting the emotional benefits of a product or service.
3. How can I measure the success of my influence strategies? Track key performance indicators (KPIs) like website traffic, conversion rates, social media engagement, and customer acquisition costs.
4. What if my target audience is resistant to my message? Address their concerns directly, demonstrate empathy, provide evidence to support your claims, and consider adjusting your communication style.
5. How can I maintain authenticity while influencing others? Be genuine in your communication, avoid manipulative tactics, and always focus on providing value to your target audience. Let your passion and expertise shine through.
| the actor and the target: The Actor and the Target Declan Donnellan, 2006 |
| the actor and the target: The Actor and the Target Declan Donnellan, 2005 Thorougly revised, second edition of one of the most successful theatre books ever published by NHB - a definitive guide to acting The Actor and the Target offers a fresh and radical approach to acting by a world-famous director. |
| the actor and the target: The Actor and the Target Declan Donnellan, 2002 Declan Donnellan's fresh and radical approach to acting takes a scalpel to the heart of actor's persistent fears from . . . I don't know what I'm doing through I don't know who I am to I don't know what I'm playing. The Actor and the Target has already been hailed by the press in Russia where it is already published: Practically and modestly written, Declan Donnellan's book helps actors to release their talent to be free on stage. However Donnellan's path leads to wider perspectives, his book is rooted in modern theatre, modern psychology and, above all, modern reality. Written with grace and elegance, The Actor and the Target will be thoroughly enjoyed not only by the actors of the new millennium, but also by those of us who see the stage from the dark auditorium.-IzvestiaDonnellan's directing style is immediately recognizable in his book, drenched in its spirit of artistic and personal freedom. Unpretentious, straightforward, and pierced with acute insight.-KommersantClearly and systematically laid out and full of firm and unambiguous precepts, this book will become a bible for actors in the 21st century.Declan Donnellan is the first Director of the Royal Shakespeare Academy and is best known for his work with Check By Jowl, including As You Like It, and the recent production of Homebody/Kabul in New York. As Associate Director of the National Theatre his pro-ductions included Fuente Ovejuna, Sweeney Todd, and Angels in America. Abroad, his work abroad includes Le Cid for the Avignon Festival, The Winter's Tale for the Maly Theatre in St. Petersbourg and Puskin's Boris Godunuv for the Moscow Theatre confederation. He has received awards in London, Paris, New York, and Moscow. |
| the actor and the target: The Actor and the Target Declan Donnellan, 2002 Acting is a mystery, and so is theatre. We assemble in a space and divide into two parts, one of which enacts stories for the remainder. We know of no society where this ritual never happens, so it appears that humanity has a profound need to witness acted-out representations, from television soap opera to Greek tragedy. - Introduction. |
| the actor and the target: Different Every Night Mike Alfreds, 2007 A top-ranking director sets out his rehearsal techniques in this invaluable handbook for actors/directors. |
| the actor and the target: I Just Couldn't Wait to Meet You Kate Ritchie, 2016 Much-loved actor and radio host Kate Ritchie's first book is a beautiful tribute to the joy and anticipation of expecting a child. When you were still a treasured bump, tucked safe away inside, I thought about you night and day and in my sleep - it's true. My heart was full of hope and love. I just couldn't wait to meet you. A heartwarming story to share with the children in your family. |
| the actor and the target: Plum Brendan Cowell, 2021-10-01 The wildly impressive, raucously funny and deeply moving second novel from award-winning writer, actor and director for television, theatre and film, Brendan Cowell, confirming the talent he showed in his bestselling debut novel from 2010, How It Feels. Peter 'The Plum' Lum is a 49-year-old ex-star NRL player, living with his son and girlfriend in Cronulla. He's living a pretty cruisey life until one day he suffers an epileptic fit and discovers that he has a brain disorder as a result of the thousand-odd head knocks he took on the footy field in his twenty-year-career. According to his neurologist, Plum has to make some changes - right now - or it's dementia, or even death. Reluctantly, Plum embarks on a journey of self-care and self-discovery, which is not so easy when all you've ever known is to go full tilt at everything. On top of this, he's being haunted by dead poets, and, unable to stop crying, discovers he has a special gift for the spoken word. With spectral visits from Bukowski and Plath, the friendship of local misfits, and the prospect of new love, Plum might just save his own life. From award-winning writer, director and actor, Brendan Cowell, Plum is a powerfully moving, authentic, big-hearted, angry and joyous novel of men, their inarticulate pain and what it takes for them to save themselves - from themselves. It's got a roaring energy, a raucous humour, a heart of gold and a poetic soul. 'Exploring masculinity and the healing power of language with great humour, grace and whimsy, Plum is a bighearted, raw and joyous take on what it means to be a man in modern Australia.' Sunday Times 'The audacious inclusion of literary outlaws ... the muscular viscerality of his language ... [Plum is] a Shire pastoral that yearns for a nostalgia fantasy of The Golden Days ... I wonder whether Plath was inspired by the great Peter Lum. Or if Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass observing a spear of summer grass while sitting in Shark Park one lonely Sunday afternoon.' Sydney Morning Herald |
| the actor and the target: That Sugar Book Damon Gameau, 2015-03-12 In the health documentary That Sugar Film, writer and director Damon Gameau enlists the help of Stephen Fry, Hugh Jackman and leading scientists around the world to shine a light on the terrible effects of sugar. In a Supersize Me-style experiment, he changes his diet to include 40 teaspoons of sugar a day for 60 days - the average daily sugar intake in Australia - and monitors the effect on his body. But here is the catch - he cannot eat chocolate, sweets, ice cream or cake; the sugar must come from 'healthy' foods. In this illustrated That Sugar Book, Damon explains how sugar damages our bodies and our minds, and how easy it is to consume sugar without even knowing it. Revealing the astonishing amounts of sugar hidden in supposedly healthy foods on supermarket shelves - such as low-fat yoghurt, muesli and children's fruit snacks - Damon makes us realise the damage we unknowingly do to ourselves and our families when we make poor food choices, and shows us how to make it right. With an up-close account of Damon's sugar experiment, and sugar-free recipes to help you wean off the white stuff, That Sugar Book is a startling wake-up call to those of us who have never questioned what's really in our food. |
| the actor and the target: Actions Marina Caldarone, Maggie Lloyd-Williams, 2004 An essential companion for actors in rehearsal - a thesaurus of action words to revitalise performance. Actors need actions. They cannot act moods. They need to be doing something with every line. They need verbs. They need an aim to achieve, and an action selected to help achieve that aim. 'Actions' are active verbs. 'I tempt you.' 'You taunt me.' In order to perform an action truthfully and therefore convincingly, an actor needs to find exactly the right action to suit that particular situation and that particular line. That is where this book comes in ... It is a thesaurus of active verbs, with which the actor can refine the action-word until s/he hits exactly the right one to help make the action come alive. It looks like this: taunt insult, tease, torment, provoke, ridicule, mock, poke, needle tempt influence, attract, entice, cajole, coax, seduce, lure, fascinate It is well known in the acting community that random lists of action-words circulate rehearsal rooms in dog-eared photocopies - as a sort of actor's crib. This book makes them available for the first time in an organised and comprehensive form. |
| the actor and the target: Twelve Summers Adam Zwar, 2021-12-01 Cricket fans, where were you during the disaster that was the 2013 Ashes? Adam Zwar was making a documentary about bodyline and filming a stunt that involved Brett Lee bowling bouncers to him while he wasn't wearing a helmet. Matthew Hayden warned him not do it. But the cameras were set up. What was he going to do - say no? How about when Australia A nearly upset Australia in the 1995 World Series Cup and the players were rebelling against officials? Adam was working as a driver for an escort agency in Melbourne. Or Australia v India in 2001? That was when Adam was stuck in a hotel with AC/DC. For all the significant moments in Adam's life, cricket was in the background - or foreground. And you don't need to be a fan of cricket to be able to relate, because we all remember where we were when something important happened, whether that's a cricket test, an album release or a TV show ending. Twelve Summers is hilarious, moving and thought provoking. Even if you aren't a fan of cricket, you'll find a lot to love in this book. |
| the actor and the target: Greenlights Matthew McConaughey, 2024-11-12 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE! Now in paperback and with exclusive new content, the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award–winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. “The No. 1 celebrity memoir of the past 10 years.”—USA Today “McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did—and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.”—Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges—how to get relative with the inevitable—you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.” So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops. Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears. It’s a love letter. To life. It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights—and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too. Good luck. |
| the actor and the target: Move Your Mind Nick Bracks, 2021-08-09 Learn how to create new daily habits that build happiness and reduce stress In Move Your Mind, acclaimed actor, entrepreneur, and mental health advocate Nick Bracks delivers the practical tools and lessons that will help you make small, but measurable, daily changes to foster positive, lasting improvements to your mental health. Told through the author's own experiences with mental illness, this book offers a holistic approach to improving your mental health, and shows readers how to make positive lifestyle changes in areas like exercise, nutrition, sleep, mindfulness, and meditation. The book offers: Valuable and insightful case studies of real and well-known people who took control of and improved their mental wellbeing Key research findings from industry leaders in mindfulness, meditation, memory, mental health, psychology, and performance Guidance on how to take small, gradual steps that lead to big changes in your motivation and inspiration Perfect for anyone who has tried to take ownership of their own mental health but lacked the time, motivation, or information to effectively make a change, Move Your Mind is an indispensable guide to creating long-term behavior changes that promote increased happiness, decreased anxiety and stress, and better relationships. |
| the actor and the target: The Invisible Actor Yoshi Oida, Lorna Marshall, 2020-10-01 The Invisible Actor presents the captivating and unique methods of the distinguished Japanese actor and director, Yoshi Oida. While a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris, Yoshi Oida developed a masterful approach to acting that combined the oriental tradition of supreme and studied control with the Western performer's need to characterise and expose depths of emotion. Written with Lorna Marshall, Yoshi Oida explains that once the audience becomes openly aware of the actor's method and becomes too conscious of the actor's artistry, the wonder of performance dies. The audience must never see the actor but only his or her performance. Throughout Lorna Marshall provides contextual commentary on Yoshi Oida's work and methods. In a new foreword to accompany the Bloomsbury Revelations edition, Yoshi Oida revisits the questions that have informed his career as an actor and explores how his skilful approach to acting has shaped the wider contours of his life. |
| the actor and the target: This Much is True Miriam Margolyes, 2021-09-16 'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRY 'As outrageously entertaining as you'd expect' Daily Express BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treasure. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story - and it's well worth the wait. Find out how being conceived in an air-raid gave her curly hair; what pranks led to her being known as the naughtiest girl Oxford High School ever had; how she ended up posing nude for Augustus John as a teenager; why Bob Monkhouse was the best (male) kiss she's ever had; and what happened next after Warren Beatty asked 'Do you fuck?' From declaring her love to Vanessa Redgrave to being told to be quiet by the Queen, this book is packed with brilliant, hilarious stories. With a cast list stretching from Scorsese to Streisand, a cross-dressing Leonardo di Caprio to Isaiah Berlin, This Much Is True is as warm and honest, as full of life and surprises, as its inimitable author. |
| the actor and the target: Kitty Flanagan's 488 Rules for Life Kitty Flanagan, 2019-10-01 488 Rules for Life is not a self-help book, because it's not you who needs help, it's other people. Whether they're walking and texting, asphyxiating you on public transport with their noxious perfume cloud, or leaving one useless square of toilet paper on the roll, a lot of people just don't know the rules. But thanks to Kitty Flanagan's comprehensive guide to modern behaviour, our world will soon be a much better place. A place where people don't ruin the fruit salad by putting banana in it ... where your co-workers respect your olfactory system and don't reheat their fish curry in the office microwave ... where middle aged men don't have ponytails ... What started as a joke on Kitty Flanagan's popular segment on ABC TV's The Weekly, is now a quintessential reference book with the power to change society. (Or, at least, make it a bit less irritating.) What people are (Kitty Flanagan is) saying about this book: 'You're welcome everyone.' 'Thank god for me.' 'I'd rather be sad and lonely, but right.' 'There's not actually 488 rules in here but it sure feels like it'. |
| the actor and the target: The Actor and the Character Vladimir Mirodan, 2018-11-12 Transformative acting remains the aspiration of many an emerging actor, and constitutes the achievement of some of the most acclaimed performances of our age: Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln, Meryl Streep as Mrs Thatcher, Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter – the list is extensive, and we all have our favourites. But what are the physical and psychological processes which enable actors to create characters so different from themselves? To understand this unique phenomenon, Vladimir Mirodan provides both a historical overview of the evolution of notions of 'character' in Western theatre and a stunning contemporary analysis of the theoretical implications of transformative acting. The Actor and the Character: Surveys the main debates surrounding the concept of dramatic character and – contrary to recent trends – explains why transformative actors conceive their characters as ‘independent’ of their own personalities. Describes some important techniques used by actors to construct their characters by physical means: work on objects, neutral and character masks, Laban movement analysis, Viewpoints, etc. Examines the psychology behind transformative acting from the perspectives of both psychoanalysis and scientific psychology and, based on recent developments in psychology, asks whether transformation is not just acting folklore but may actually entail temporary changes to the brain structures of the actors. The Actor and the Character speaks not only to academics and students studying actor training and acting theory, but contributes to current lively academic debates around character. This is a compelling and original exploration of the limits of acting theory and practice, psychology, and creative work, in which Mirodan boldly re-examines some of the fundamental assumptions of actor training and some basic tenets of theatre practice to ask: What happens when one of us ‘becomes somebody else’? |
| the actor and the target: Enigma Variations Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, 2003 THE STORY: Nobel Prize-winning author Abel Znorko lives as a recluse on a remote island in the Norwegian Seas. For fifteen years, his one friend and soulmate has been Helen, from whom he has been physically separated for the majority of their affai |
| the actor and the target: A Practical Handbook for the Actor Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, Scott Zigler, 2012-04-25 For anyone who has ever wanted to take an acting class, this is the best book on acting written in the last twenty years (David Mamet, from the Introduction). This book describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors, in their work with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, actor W. H. Macy, and director Gregory Mosher. A Practical Handbook for the Actor is written for any actor who has ever experienced the frustrations of acting classes that lacked clarity and objectivity, and that failed to provide a dependable set of tools. An actor's job, the authors state, is to find a way to live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances of the play. The ways in which an actor can attain that truth form the substance of this eloquent book. |
| the actor and the target: The Actor's Art and Craft William Esper, Damon Dimarco, 2008-04-08 William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisner's legendary technique, offering a clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to becoming a truly creative actor.Esper worked closely with Meisner for seventeen years and has spent decades developing his famous program for actor's training. The result is a rigorous system of exercises that builds a solid foundation of acting skills from the ground up, and that is flexible enough to be applied to any challenge an actor faces, from soap operas to Shakespeare. Co-writer Damon DiMarco, a former student of Esper's, spent over a year observing his mentor teaching first-year acting students. In this book he recreates that experience for us, allowing us to see how the progression of exercises works in practice. The Actor's Art and Craft vividly demonstrates that good training does not constrain actors' instincts—it frees them to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives. |
| the actor and the target: Seven Pillars of Acting Sonya Cooke, 2018 Cutting-edge, comprehensive, and effective, Seven Pillars Acting empowers the actor to transform into character with ease and authenticity. Inspired by the great acting teachers of the last century, Seven Pillars Acting is a modern method that provides a structured set of tools and a dependable process to access and cultivate talent. With many students of the technique now working in the entertainment industry, Seven Pillars Acting is changing the way actors approach the craft. Each pillar focuses in on a different aspect of acting; added together, they give the actor the complete skills necessary to book a callback, land the part, and deliver a performance that is both effortless and true. Young actors and seasoned performers alike not only gain a clear concept of acting, they also begin or reenergize their professional acting careers in film, television, and theater. It is the goal of Seven Pillars Acting to instill in actors a technique that they can practice for a lifetime, without needing a teacher or guru to handhold the artist. The first comprehensive technique in the past thirty years, Seven Pillars Acting is for the serious actor who seeks a personal, dependable, and thrilling approach to crafting character. |
| the actor and the target: The Intent to Live Larry Moss, 2004-12-28 “I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don’t seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.” –Larry Moss, from the Introduction When Oscar-winning actors Helen Hunt and Hilary Swank accepted their Academy Awards, each credited Larry Moss’s guidance as key to their career-making performances. There is a two-year waiting list for his advanced acting classes. But now everyone–professionals and amateurs alike–can discover Moss’s passionate, in-depth teaching. Inviting you to join him in the classroom and onstage, Moss shares the techniques he has developed over thirty years to help actors set their emotions, imagination, and behavior on fire, showing how the hard work of preparation pays off in performances that are spontaneous, fresh, and authentic. From the foundations of script analysis to the nuances of physicalization and sensory work, here are the case studies, exercises, and insights that enable you to connect personally with a script, develop your character from the inside out, overcome fear and inhibition, and master the technical skills required for success in the theater, television, and movies. Far more than a handbook, The Intent to Live is the personal credo of a master teacher. Moss’s respect for actors and love of the actor’s craft enliven every page, together with examples from a wealth of plays and films, both current and classic, and vivid appreciations of great performances. Whether you act for a living or simply want a deeper understanding of acting greatness, The Intent to Live will move, instruct, and inspire you. |
| the actor and the target: Re-Purposing Suzuki Maria Porter, 2021-11-29 Re-Purposing Suzuki: A Hybrid Approach to Actor Training introduces a system of text analysis that synthesizes physical, psychological, and vocal components in order to truthfully embody heightened texts and contexts. By understanding how the author has re-purposed Suzuki and other physical training methods, as well as Stanislavski, readers will gain an awareness of how to analyze a particular training method by extrapolating its key components and integrating it into a holistic, embodied approach to text analysis. The book explores a method of physical scoring via Rules of the Body and Rules of Composition, as well as a method of approaching heightened texts from Greek drama to post-modern playwrights that draws on the individual actor’s imagination and experience and integrates voice, mind, and body. Readers will be able to either replicate this approach, or apply the logic of its building blocks to assemble their own personal creative process applicable to a variety of performance genres. This is a source book for actors, theatre students, practitioners, and educators interested in assembling tools derived from different sources to create alternative approaches to actor training. While the process outlined in the book evolves in a classroom setting, the components of the pedagogy can also be practiced by individuals who are interested in finding new ways to explore text and character and bring them into their own personal practice. |
| the actor and the target: Waiting for Tom Hanks Kerry Winfrey, 2019-06-11 A rom-com-obsessed romantic waiting for her perfect leading man learns that life doesn’t always go according to a script in this delightfully charming and funny novel. Annie Cassidy dreams of being the next Nora Ephron. She spends her days writing screenplays, rewatching Sleepless in Seattle, and waiting for her movie-perfect meet-cute. If she could just find her own Tom Hanks—a man who’s sweet, sensitive, and possibly owns a houseboat—her problems would disappear and her life would be perfect. But Tom Hanks is nowhere in sight. When a movie starts filming in her neighborhood and Annie gets a job on set, it seems like a sign. Then Annie meets the lead actor, Drew Danforth, a cocky prankster who couldn’t be less like Tom Hanks if he tried. Their meet-cute is more of a meet-fail, but soon Annie finds herself sharing some classic rom-com moments with Drew. Her Tom Hanks can’t be an actor who’s leaving town in a matter of days...can he? |
| the actor and the target: The Actor's Life Jenna Fischer, 2017-11-14 Jenna Fischer's Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hometown of St. Louis. With a theater degree in hand, she was determined, she was confident, she was ready to work hard. So, what could go wrong? Uh, basically everything. The path to being a professional actor was so much more vast and competitive than she'd imagined. It would be eight long years before she landed her iconic role on The Office, nearly a decade of frustration, struggle, rejection and doubt. If only she'd had a handbook for the aspiring actor. Or, better yet, someone to show her the way—an established actor who could educate her about the business, manage her expectations, and reassure her in those moments of despair. Jenna wants to be that person for you. With amusing candor and wit, Fischer spells out the nuts and bolts of getting established in the profession, based on her own memorable and hilarious experiences. She tells you how to get the right headshot, what to look for in representation, and the importance of joining forces with other like-minded artists and creating your own work—invaluable advice personally acquired from her many years of struggle. She provides helpful hints on how to be gutsy and take risks, the tricks to good auditioning and callbacks, and how not to fall for certain scams (auditions in a guy's apartment are probably not legit—or at least not for the kind of part you're looking for!). Her inspiring, helpful guidance feels like a trusted friend who's made the journey, and has now returned to walk beside you, pointing out the pitfalls as you blaze your own path towards the life of a professional actor. |
| the actor and the target: In-Depth Acting Dee Cannon, 2012-10-23 'A book that will stand the test of time' – Pierce Brosnan An essential guide to the Stanislavski technique, filtering out the complexities of the system and offering a dynamic, hands-on approach. Provides a comprehensive understanding of character, preparation, text, subtext and objectives. How to prepare for drama school and professional auditions How to develop a 3-dimensional, truthful character Preparation exercises to help you get in character Rehearsal guidelines An appendix of Transitive/Active Verbs and more |
| the actor and the target: Counterproductive Work Behavior Suzy Fox, Paul E. Spector, 2005-01-01 Counterproductive work behavior (CWB) encompasses a spectrum of actions that harm employees or organizations. These behaviors include bullying, emotional abuse, revenge, retaliation, mobbing, and aggression. This volume examines the conditions and events that contribute to CWB, as well as the steps organizations might take to combat it. |
| the actor and the target: The Art Of Seduction Robert Greene, 2010-09-03 Which sort of seducer could you be? Siren? Rake? Cold Coquette? Star? Comedian? Charismatic? Or Saint? This book will show you which. Charm, persuasion, the ability to create illusions: these are some of the many dazzling gifts of the Seducer, the compelling figure who is able to manipulate, mislead and give pleasure all at once. When raised to the level of art, seduction, an indirect and subtle form of power, has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. In this beautiful, sensually designed book, Greene unearths the two sides of seduction: the characters and the process. Discover who you, or your pursuer, most resembles. Learn, too, the pitfalls of the anti-Seducer. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four manoeuvres and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over their target. Understand how to 'Choose the Right Victim', 'Appear to Be an Object of Desire' and 'Confuse Desire and Reality'. In addition, Greene provides instruction on how to identify victims by type. Each fascinating character and each cunning tactic demonstrates a fundamental truth about who we are, and the targets we've become - or hope to win over. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer on the essence of one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate power trip. From the internationally bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The 33 Strategies Of War. |
| the actor and the target: The Actor Speaks Patsy Rodenburg, 2002-08-17 In The Actor Speaks, Patsy Rodenburg takes actors and actresses, both professional and beginners, through a complete voice workshop. She touches on every aspect of performance work that involves the voice and sorts through the kinds of vexing problems every performer faces onstage: breath and relaxation; vocal range and power; communication with other actors; singing and acting simultaneously; working on different sized stages and in both large and small auditoriums; approaching the vocal demands of different kinds of scripts. This is the final word on the actor's voice and it's destined to become the classic work on the subject for some time to come. |
| the actor and the target: The Power of the Actor Ivana Chubbuck, 2005-08-18 In The Power of the Actor, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, premier acting teacher and coach Ivana Chubbuck reveals her cutting-edge technique, which has launched some of the most successful acting careers in Hollywood. The first book from the instructor who has taught Charlize Theron, Brad Pitt, Elisabeth Shue, Djimon Hounsou, and Halle Berry, The Power of the Actor guides you to dynamic and effective results. For many of today’s major talents, the Chubbuck Technique is the leading edge of acting for the twenty-first century. Ivana Chubbuck has developed a curriculum that takes the theories of the acting masters, such as Stanislavski, Meisner, and Hagen, to the next step by utilizing inner pain and emotions, not as an end in itself, but rather as a way to drive and win a goal. In addition to the powerful twelve-step process, the book takes well-known scripts, both classic and contemporary, and demonstrates how to precisely apply Chubbuck’s script-analysis process. The Power of the Actor is filled with fascinating and inspiring behind-the-scenes accounts of how noted actors have mastered their craft and have accomplished success in such a difficult and competitive field. |
| the actor and the target: The Actor and His Body Litz Pisk, 2017-11-30 'Once you start working with someone like Litz you don't ever want to stop if you can help it' - Vanessa Redgrave Litz Pisk was widely regarded as the most influential teacher of modern theatre movement of the 20th Century. She innovated and advocated a physical training that sought to combine awareness, emotion and imagination specifically for the actor's craft. Her seminal book, The Actor and His Body, is the direct result of her unique dual career as a professional movement director and as an actor movement teacher working in leading British conservatoires. Pisk's quest was to find expression for the inner impulse that motivated actors to move. Her teachings, as outlined in this book, offer insight on the specific craft of the actor, and the relationship between movement, imagination and the 'need' to move. The Actor and His Body is also a practical manual for keeping the actor's body physically and expressively responsive. In addition, there are a range of movement exercises, illuminated by her exquisite line drawings, and a complete weekly programme which concentrates on movement practice within different timescales. This fourth edition features the original foreword by Michael Elliot as well as a new introduction by Ayse Tashkiran, contemporary movement director and Senior Lecturer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, which contextualises Pisk's work. |
| the actor and the target: Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men Phil Rosenzweig, 2021-10-05 Finalist, 2021 Wall Award (Formerly the Theatre Library Association Award) The untold story behind one of America’s greatest dramas In early 1957, a low-budget black-and-white movie opened across the United States. Consisting of little more than a dozen men arguing in a dingy room, it was a failure at the box office and soon faded from view. Today, 12 Angry Men is acclaimed as a movie classic, revered by the critics, beloved by the public, and widely performed as a stage play, touching audiences around the world. It is also a favorite of the legal profession for its portrayal of ordinary citizens reaching a just verdict and widely taught for its depiction of group dynamics and human relations. Few twentieth-century American dramatic works have had the acclaim and impact of 12 Angry Men. Reginald Rose and the Journey of “12 Angry Men” tells two stories: the life of a great writer and the journey of his most famous work, one that ultimately outshined its author. More than any writer in the Golden Age of Television, Reginald Rose took up vital social issues of the day—from racial prejudice to juvenile delinquency to civil liberties—and made them accessible to a wide audience. His 1960s series, The Defenders, was the finest drama of its age and set the standard for legal dramas. This book brings Reginald Rose’s long and successful career, its origins and accomplishments, into view at long last. By placing 12 Angry Men in its historical and social context—the rise of television, the blacklist, and the struggle for civil rights—author Phil Rosenzweig traces the story of this brilliant courtroom drama, beginning with the chance experience that inspired Rose, to its performance on CBS’s Westinghouse Studio One in 1954, to the feature film with Henry Fonda. The book describes Sidney Lumet’s casting, the sudden death of one actor, and the contribution of cinematographer Boris Kaufman. It explores the various drafts of the drama, with characters modified and scenes added and deleted, with Rose settling on the shattering climax only days before filming began. Drawing on extensive research and brimming with insight, this book casts new light on one of America’s great dramas—and about its author, a man of immense talent and courage. Author royalties will be donated equally to the Feerick Center for Social Justice at Fordham Law School and the Justice John Paul Stevens Jury Center at Chicago-Kent College of Law. |
| the actor and the target: Voice and the Actor Cicely Berry, 2008-06 Voice and the Actor is the first classic work by Cicely Berry, Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and world-famous voice teacher. Encapsulating her renowned method of teaching voice production, the exercises in this straightforward, no-nonsense guide will develop relaxation, breathing and muscular control - without which no actor or speaker can achieve their full potential.Illustrated with passages used in Cicely Berry's own teaching, Voice and the Actor is the essential first step towards speaking a text with truth and meaning. Inspiring and practical, her words will be a revelation for beginner and professional alike. |
| the actor and the target: Actioning and how to Do it Nick Moseley, 2016 The indispensable companion to a vital component in every actor's toolkit. |
| the actor and the target: An Actor's Companion Seth Barrish, 2015-05-25 I was totally unprepared for the transformation that Seth's technique created in me. . . . I realized that what I thought I knew about acting up to that point was largely misguided . . . but I now had a great, talented, dedicated teacher who generously wanted to share his tools with everyone. There is muscularity, not to mention wisdom and truth to Seth's techniques. He is a wonderful teacher, and I know that having him as my first guide is one of the luckiest things to have happened to me in my career and life. And when I can't get back to class with him, I am so grateful I have this book to turn to.—Anne Hathaway This book is truly unlike anything else I know—these pieces are haikus on specific elements of performance and character building.—Philip Himberg, executive director, Sundance Theatre Institute A collection of practical acting tips, tools, and exercises, An Actor's Companion is ideal for both the seasoned professionals and actors-in-training. The tips—all simple, direct, and useful—are easy to understand and even easier to apply, in both rehearsal and in performance. Seth Barrish is an actor, teacher, and the co-artistic director of The Barrow Group in New York City. In his thirty-year career, he has directed the award-winning shows My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (Lucille Lortel Award for Best Solo Show, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Solo Show), Sleepwalk With Me (Nightlife Award for Outstanding Comedian in a Major Performance), The Tricky Part (Obie Award, Drama Desk nominations for Best Play and Best Solo Show), Pentecost (Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), Old Wicked Songs (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and Garland Award for Best Direction), and Good (Straw Hat Award for Best Direction), among dozens of others. |
| the actor and the target: The Outstanding Actor Ken Rea, 2021-01-14 Drawing on Ken Rea's 35 years' teaching experience and research, as well as interviews with top actors and directors, The Outstanding Actor identifies seven key qualities that the most successful actors manifest, along with practical exercises that help nurture those qualities and videos to demonstrate them. Featuring contributions and insights from Ewan McGregor, Jude Law, Judi Dench, Al Pacino, Lily James, Rufus Norris and many more, The Outstanding Actor gives you techniques that you can immediately put into practice in rehearsals, classes or private preparation. It also shows you how to increase the chances of having a more successful career. This new edition covers topical issues such as the #MeToo movement, gender balance and race issues, and how these affect working conditions and careers. There are also brand new links to video resources that bring the valuable exercises to life. The book also includes forewords by Damian Lewis and Lily James. |
| the actor and the target: Conversations with the Constitution Gregory Craven, 2004 Describes the bitter power struggles of the Australian constitution's forging, and paints the founding fathers as implausible heroes who managed a profound historical achievement. It talks about parliaments, courts, judges and ministers not just as colorless instruments of the Constitution, but as the walking wounded of political psychology; and it sheds light on today’s great constitutional controversies: Do we need a Bill of Rights? Can federalism work? How can parliament work better? Can we ever be a republic? |
| the actor and the target: Acting Richard Boleslavsky, 2019-02-11 The classic text on the craft of Method acting by the founder of The American Laboratory Theatre. After studying at the Moscow Art Theatre under Konstantin Stanislavski, Richard Boleslavsky became one of the most important acting teachers of his or any generation. Bringing Stanislavski’s system to America in the 1920s and 30s, he influenced many of the titans of American drama, from his own students—including Lee Strasburg and Stella Adler—to Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, and many others. In Acting: The First Six Lessons, Boleslavsky presents his acting theory and technique in a series of accessible and engaging dialogues. Widely considered a must-have for any serious actor, Boleslavsky’s work has long helped actors better understand their craft. |
| the actor and the target: I Don't Need an Acting Class Milton Justice, 2021-11-01 I Don't Need an Acting Class explores critical aspects of the technique of acting, utilizing conversations via email with countless actors. Some are aspiring students, others are seasoned professionals. The conversations document the challenges these diverse actors face as they digest what they have learned in a class or rehearsal while exploring in practical terms how to use their growing technique. Milton Justice first began receiving emails from actors in 2008. In this book, Justice brings together email conversations between teacher and student, along with observations and commentary about acting technique and craft. Not all of the emails in the book are overly thought-out or complete. Quite the contrary, they are meant to capture the feeling of a living, breathing process as it happens. When an actor sends a teacher or director an email with a problem, be it a simple comment or confusion, it is evidence of a creative artist exploring new ground. Many years ago, Stella Adler sent Justice a letter in response to a panicked note he had written to her while lost in the weeds during rehearsals for a new play. She set a tone for him as she succinctly defined the problem and reminded him of its elegant solution. He was overwhelmed by the care she had given him. That letter still hangs over his desk, perfectly demonstrating the power of a written exchange between a teacher and a student. |
| the actor and the target: To the Actor Michael Chekhov, In this practical guide, renowned actor and director Michael Chekhov shares his innovative approach to the craft of acting. Drawing on his extensive experience in the theater and his unique understanding of the actor's creative process, Chekhov presents a comprehensive system of techniques designed to help actors develop their physical, mental, and emotional abilities. Through a series of exercises and principles, actors can learn to create compelling, truthful performances that captivate audiences and bring characters to life on stage and screen. |
| the actor and the target: Greenlights Matthew McConaughey, 2020-10-20 From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call 'catching greenlights.' So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops. Hopefully, it's medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot's license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears. It's a love letter. To life. It's also a guide to catching more greenlights-and to realising that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too. Good luck. |
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Integrated Actor-Critic for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Integrated Actor-Critic for Deep Reinforcement Learning 509 3.2 Adaptive Objective Function Let φ denote parameters of the integrated network, which is the union of actor and critic parameters: φ = θ ∪ w. In our algorithm, similar to DDPG, we also keep a separate target network with parameters φ to provide stable targets to the critic ...
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An analysis of target and actor perspectives on initial hostile interactions Katerina Zabrodska, Ph.D. Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Addressing Function Approximation Error in Actor-Critic …
actor-critic setting, the current and target value estimates remain too similar to avoid maximization bias. This can be dealt with by adapting an older variant, Double Q-learning (Van Hasselt,2010), to an actor-critic format by using a pair of independently trained critics. While this allows for
From target to actor: Contagion of honesty and deception …
to be considered immoral and unpalatable to both actor and target, whereas bluffs are regarded as amoral and pal-atable to both parties. Their study suggests that these dif-ferences invoke distinctive reactions, justifying more nuanced deception research in buyer–supplier relation-ships (Kaufmann et al., 2018). In Study 1 of this paper,
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Jealousy at work: A tripartite model - ResearchGate
characteristics of the actor-target exchange, rival characteristics, and the moderating effects of the organizational environment that can influence the emergence of jealousy, thus opening up
Self-guided deep deterministic policy gradient with multi …
and target encoders in the model. In fact, they are embedded in actors and target actors, respectively. In the model, pðsjhl nÞis used to represent the nth actor network, and pðsjhl0 n Þis the nth target actor network. Where h l n and hl0 n are network parameters. They also contain the param-eters of encoder layers and target encoder layers ...
Soft Actor-Critic-Based Continuous Control Optimization for …
As mentioned before, we propose a continuous control optimization for moving target tracking based on soft actor-critic. In this section, we will discuss simulation results of the moving target tracking model. A total of 10000 iterations training were performed using a computer with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M GPU card and 8G RAM in Explorer.
ICHI Reference Guide International Classification of Health …
• Target - entity on which the Action is carried out • Action - deed done by an actor to the Target • Means - processes and methods by which the Action is carried out. Each axis consists of a coded list of descriptive categories. Each stem code is represented by a title and a unique seven-character code denoting the axis categories for ...
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Lone actor terrorists: A residence-to- crime approach
investigated the spatial decision making of lone actor terrorists in Europe and the United States. Journey-to-attack distances were computed for each attack using the home and target locations using Euclidean straight-line distance (the shortest distance between two points). Target choices were coded as either iconic, symbolic, or
Lone actor terrorism in 2019 and 2020: trends and implications
Mar 1, 2021 · preferred weapon of lone-actor terrorists, being used in 56% of all attacks. Although those attacks killed relatively few people, the short planning period and the unpredictability of target selection meant that security forces were responding to attacks in progress, rather than disrupting them during the planning or preparation stages.
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Actor-Critic methods [26, 38] are among the most popular methods in Reinforcement Learning ... the replay buffer, ˚ 0and are the parameters of the target actor and critic network respectively. TD3 addresses the overestimation problem in DDPG by employing double critics for value estimation, which is given by Q^(s 0;a 0) min i=1;2 Q 0 i
Safety Guaranteed Manipulation Based on Reinforcement …
a model predictive controller (MPC) actor, thereby offering a safe policy. On the one hand, the RL planner learns from sparse rewards by selecting intermediate goals that are easy to achieve in the short term and promising to lead to target goals in the long term. On the other hand, the MPC actor takes the suggested intermediate goals from the ...
Multi-AUV Based Underwater Target Tracking Method via …
Multi-AUV Based Underwater Target Tracking Method via Reinforcement Learning in Dynamic Ocean Environment Tianxiang Xing ∗,+, Jingzehua Xu †, Jun Du ∗, Xiangwang Hou , Tianyu Xing , Yong Ren ...
GUIDE TO ACTOR MAPPING - FSG
An actor map is a visual depiction of the key organizations and/or individuals that make up a system, ... list of key individuals or groups to target as part of an action plan. By contrast, actor mapping explores the relationships and connections among actors, as well as their relationships to a given issue, project, ...
Codebook and Data Description Version 1.0 January, 2019
Each actor and target in the original SCAD data (see SCAD codebook for details) is assigned a code, indicating the domain they belong to, and if applicable, providing a unique organizational identifier. Domain Categories Domain categories indicate the primary functional area(s) or identity of the group/individual in question.
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threat actor is likely based in a country that is hostile to the United States. This could be a motivation for the threat actor to target US organizations in order to disrupt their operations or steal sensitive data. Overall, the motivations of the threat actor are likely a combination of financial gain and geo-political factors.
arXiv:2104.06655v2 [cs.AI] 8 May 2021
to achieve sample e ciency and robust performance, [6] proposed the soft actor-critic algorithm, which is an o -policy actor-critic RL algorithm based on the maximum entropy reinforcement learning framework and achieves state-of-the-art performance on many challenging continuous control benchmarks.
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Actor, Goal behavioral ‘behaving’ Behaver mental: perception affection cognition ‘sensing’ ‘seeing’ ‘feeling’ ‘thinking’ Senser, Phenomenon Verbal ‘saying’ Sayer, Target relational: attribution identification ‘being’ ‘attributing’ ‘identifying’ Token, Value Carrier, Attribute Identified, Identifier
Melanoma Cell Adhesion Molecule, CD146: A Major Actor …
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Russian Military Cyber Actors Target U.S. and Global Critical ...
attributed as malicious without analytical evidence to support threat actor use and/or control. Acunetix: Unit 29155 cyber actors leveraged both Acunetix and Nmap to identify open ports, services, and vulne rabilities for networks [T1595.002].[6]
Time for aCTIon: Automated Analysis of Cyber Threat …
complex information (i.e., threat actor, malware, target, attack pattern). Nonetheless, the performance of these solutions is still limited (Section V). One of the problems is the way these machine learning solutions operate: they often specialize a general natural lan-guage processing machine learning model, fine-tuning it for the ...
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From Policy Gradient to Actor-Critic methods
From Policy Gradient to Actor-Critic methods DDPG Trick 1: Stable Target Q-function I The target y i= r i+ max aQ^ ˇ ˚ (s i+1;a)j˚) is itself a function of Q^ ˇ ˚ I Thus this is not truly supervised learning, and this is unstable I Key idea: \periods of supervised learning" I Compute the loss function from a separate target critic Q^0 ˇ ...
Target Entropy Poster - indylab.org
Target Entropy Annealing For Discrete Soft Actor-Critic Introduction Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) is considered the state-of-the-art algorithm in continuous action space settings. It uses the maximum entropy framework for efficiency and stability, and applies a heuristic temperature Lagrange
2 Actor mapping and context analysis - Global Interagency …
Actor mapping Actor mapping is an exercise to identify all the key individuals, stakeholders or other organisations that will have an effect on the operating environment. They can include: Host government ministers, department heads or similar Opposition figures, groups or key supporters Host government security officials (military, police ...
Inter-Target Communication in Actor Framework
Actor Framework on a Single Target Application Process UI Subprocess Subprocess Subprocess This is the recommended topology for Actor Framework systems. Your application launches a top level actor, which launches one or more subprocess actors. Those subproocesses may themselves launch subprocesses, and so on.
AACHER: Assorted Actor-Critic Deep Reinforcement …
Actor learning and critic learning are two components of the out-standing and mostly used Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) reinforcement learning method. Since actor and critic ... The target networks, which apply the updated parameters, use the computed average for both actors and critics.
Decomposed Soft Actor-Critic Method for Cooperative Multi …
soft actor-critic algorithm, which is an off-policy actor-critic RL algorithm based on the maximum entropy reinforcement learning framework and achieves state-of-the-art performance on many challenging continuous control benchmarks. To attain both stability and good final performance in CTDE paradigm, how to effectively incorporate soft actor
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Sep 5, 2024 · Appendix B: Indicators of Compromise lists threat actor IP addresses associated with the activity detailed in this section. Table 1: IoT Exploitation Events Note: These events are independent and not correlated as a single timeline of compromise. Event Victim Observation Web requests observed from victim infrastructure
arXiv:1607.07086v2 [cs.LG] 26 Jul 2016
Algorithm 1 Actor-Critic Training for Sequence Prediction Require: A critic Q^(a;Y^ 1:::t;Y) and an actor p(ajY^ 1:::t;X)with weights ˚and respectively. 1: Initialize delayed actor p 0and target critic Q^0 with same weights: 0= , ˚0= ˚. 2: while Not Converged do 3: Receive a random example (X;Y). 4: Generate a sequence of actions Y^ from p 0.
Addressing Function Approximation Error in Actor-Critic …
quires the use of target networks, where a secondary frozen network Q target (s;a) is used to maintain a fixed objective yover multiple updates: y= r+ Q target (s 0;a0): (4) For discrete actions a 0= argmax a Q target (s;a) while similarly, a0˘ˇ ˚ target (s) for continuous actions, where
DSAC-T: Distributional Soft Actor-Critic with Three …
target return clipping boundary into gradient calculation, it overlooks the randomness reduction of mean-related gradient. DSAC-T uses an adjusted update gradient to stabilize mean-value updates, where the random target return is replaced with its expected value. This adjust-ment leads to a similar update rule as non-distributional methods like ...
A Sample-Efficient Actor-Critic Algorithm for …
novel actor-critic reinforcement learning algorithm for recommendation diversification in order to solve the above mentioned problems. The actor acts as the ranking policy, while the introduced critic predicts the expected future rewards of each candidate action. The critic target is updated by full Bellman equation and the actor
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enable the malicious actor to achieve the attacker’s objectives. These four phases are: 1 • Malicious actor decides to target agency. • Threat actor engages in information gathering and sharing using open-source information and other resources. Pre-Attack Phase 2 • Threat actor creates imposter email using Domain-based
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The Actor and the Target Declan Donnellan,2006 The Actor and the Target Declan Donnellan,2005 Thorougly revised second edition of one of the most successful theatre books ever published by NHB a definitive guide to acting The Actor and the Target offers a fresh and radical approach to acting by a world famous director The Actor and the Target ...
Threat Actor Type Inference and Characterization within …
ontology for threat actor characterization and threat actor type inference. Section 5 validates the proposed concept’s efcacy and presents a use-case analysis where the ontology presented in Section 4 is used to infer threat actor types automatically. Furthermore, Section 5 demonstrates the potential of characterization attributes
A Self-Tuning Actor-Critic Algorithm - NeurIPS
IMPALA uses a distributed actor critic architecture, that assigns copies of the policy parameters to multiple actors in different machines to achieve higher sample throughput. As a result, the target policy ˇon the learner machine can be several updates ahead of the actor’s policy that generated the data used in an update.
Large Scale Multi-Actor Generative Dialog Modeling - ACL …
tions of a target actor. In doing so, we are able to utilize more abstract patterns within a person’s speech and better emulate them in generated responses. This work introduces the GENERATIVE CONVERSATION CONTROL model, an augmented and fine-tuned GPT-2 language model that conditions on past refer-ence conversations to probabilistically model
Optimal Actor-Critic Policy with Optimized Training Datasets
Optimal Actor-Critic Policy with Optimized Training Datasets Chayan Banerjee 1, Zhiyong Chen1, Nasimul Noman2, and Mohsen Zamani,3 Abstract—Actor-critic (AC) algorithms are known for their efficacy and high performance in solving reinforcement learning ... whose target is the
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work for actor-critic methods and provide a thorough scaling law analysis. Concurrent work also shows promising scaling behavior of model-based RL methods (Hansen et al.,2023) for models up to 300M parameters in a multitask setup. 3. Scalable Offline Actor-Critic Learning We scale up offline actor-critic methods to large models. To
Sexual Harassment as Aggressive Behavior: An Actor-Based …
foregoing actor behavior influencing target re-sponses and target responses influencing sub-sequent actor behavior (evidenced by the feed-back loops in the figure). Third, the pervasive impact of social context is reflected in the box that surrounds the model. The nature of con-FIGURE 1 An Actor-Based Model of Sexual Harassment Interactions
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Italian media source reported the activity and ProofPoint assigned the activity to a new actor, which ProofPoint namedTA2101. If a victim does not pay the initial ransomware within a certain timeframe, the threat actor publishes a percentage of the victim’s data to a public website. Data published has sensitive
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the crowd actor makes choices and takes action. –We demonstrate the idea of the crowd actor as applied to a target acquisition task, including variants that express different personalities. –We compare different personalities of the crowd actor in a large-scale motor performance exper-iment, illustrating inherent trade-offs. 2. RELATED WORK
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AACHER: Assorted Actor-Critic Deep Reinforcement …
Actor learning and critic learning are two components of the out-standing and mostly used Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) reinforcement learning method. Since actor and critic ... The target networks, which apply the updated parameters, use the computed average for both actors and critics.
