Table 3 Ablation results of reward function

From: Precision autofocus in optical microscopy with liquid lenses controlled by deep reinforcement learning

Number

Reward Function Variant

Average Score

MAE

Time Steps

Focusing Accuracy

Success Rate

1

Sharpness Reward

735.01

0.94

0%

0%

2

Sharpness + Stop Reward

-436.19

13.06

3.55

10%

54%

3

Sharpness + Time step Reward

-216.88

4.65

3.5

12%

55%

4

Sharpness + Additional Reward

1259.87

1.37

13%

0%

5

Sharpness + Time step + Stop + Additional Reward

35.4

1.43

3.15

16%

83%