diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/ddpg.rs b/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/ddpg.rs
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/ddpg.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,360 @@
+/* Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient.
+
+   Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning, Lillicrap et al. 2015
+   https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02971
+
+   See https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/algorithms/ddpg.html for a
+   reference python implementation.
+*/
+use super::gym_env::GymEnv;
+use candle::{DType, Device, Result, Tensor};
+use candle_nn::VarMap;
+
+// The impact of the q value of the next state on the current state's q value.
+const GAMMA: f64 = 0.99;
+// The weight for updating the target networks.
+const TAU: f64 = 0.005;
+// The capacity of the replay buffer used for sampling training data.
+const REPLAY_BUFFER_CAPACITY: usize = 100_000;
+// The training batch size for each training iteration.
+const TRAINING_BATCH_SIZE: usize = 100;
+// The total number of episodes.
+const MAX_EPISODES: usize = 100;
+// The maximum length of an episode.
+const EPISODE_LENGTH: usize = 200;
+// The number of training iterations after one episode finishes.
+const TRAINING_ITERATIONS: usize = 200;
+
+// Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process parameters.
+const MU: f64 = 0.0;
+const THETA: f64 = 0.15;
+const SIGMA: f64 = 0.1;
+
+const ACTOR_LEARNING_RATE: f64 = 1e-4;
+const CRITIC_LEARNING_RATE: f64 = 1e-3;
+
+struct OuNoise {
+    mu: f64,
+    theta: f64,
+    sigma: f64,
+    state: Tensor,
+}
+
+impl OuNoise {
+    fn new(mu: f64, theta: f64, sigma: f64, num_actions: usize) -> Result<Self> {
+        let state = Tensor::ones(num_actions, DType::F32, &Device::Cpu)?;
+        Ok(Self {
+            mu,
+            theta,
+            sigma,
+            state,
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn sample(&mut self) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let dx = (((self.mu - &self.state)? * self.theta)?
+            + (self.state.randn_like(0., 1.)? * self.beta)?)?;
+        self.state = (self.state + dx)?;
+        Ok(self.state.clone())
+    }
+}
+
+struct ReplayBuffer {
+    obs: Tensor,
+    next_obs: Vec<Tensor>,
+    rewards: Vec<Tensor>,
+    actions: Vec<Tensor>,
+    capacity: usize,
+    len: usize,
+    i: usize,
+}
+
+impl ReplayBuffer {
+    fn new(capacity: usize, num_obs: usize, num_actions: usize) -> Self {
+        let cpu = Device::Cpu;
+        let obs = vec![Tensor::zeros(num_obs, DType::F32, &cpu)?; capacity];
+        let next_obs = vec![Tensor::zeros(num_obs, DType::F32, &cpu)?; capacity];
+        let rewards = vec![Tensor::zeros(1, DType::F32, &cpu)?; capacity];
+        let actions = vec![Tensor::zeros(num_actions, DType::F32, &cpu)?; capacity];
+        Ok(Self {
+            obs,
+            next_obs,
+            rewards,
+            actions,
+            capacity,
+            len: 0,
+            i: 0,
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn push(&mut self, obs: &Tensor, actions: &Tensor, reward: &Tensor, next_obs: &Tensor) {
+        let i = self.i % self.capacity;
+        self.obs.get(i as _).copy_(obs);
+        self.rewards.get(i as _).copy_(reward);
+        self.actions.get(i as _).copy_(actions);
+        self.next_obs.get(i as _).copy_(next_obs);
+        self.i += 1;
+        if self.len < self.capacity {
+            self.len += 1;
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn random_batch(&self, batch_size: usize) -> Option<(Tensor, Tensor, Tensor, Tensor)> {
+        if self.len < 3 {
+            return None;
+        }
+
+        let batch_size = batch_size.min(self.len - 1);
+        let batch_indexes = Tensor::randint((self.len - 2) as _, [batch_size as _], INT64_CPU);
+
+        let states = self.obs.index_select(0, &batch_indexes);
+        let next_states = self.next_obs.index_select(0, &batch_indexes);
+        let actions = self.actions.index_select(0, &batch_indexes);
+        let rewards = self.rewards.index_select(0, &batch_indexes);
+
+        Some((states, actions, rewards, next_states))
+    }
+}
+
+struct Actor {
+    varmap: VarMap,
+    network: candle_nn::Func,
+    num_obs: usize,
+    num_actions: usize,
+    opt: candle_nn::AdamW,
+    learning_rate: f64,
+}
+
+impl Actor {
+    fn new(num_obs: usize, num_actions: usize, learning_rate: f64) -> Self {
+        let mut varmap = VarMap::new();
+        let vb = VarBuilder::from_varmap(&varmap, DType::F32, &dev);
+        let al1 = candle_nn::linear(num_obs, 400, vb.pp("al1"))?;
+        let al2 = candle_nn::linear(400, 300, vb.pp("al2"))?;
+        let al3 = candle_nn::linear(300, num_actions, vb.pp("al3"))?;
+        let network = Func::new(|xs| {
+            xs.apply(al1)?
+                .relu()?
+                .apply(al2)?
+                .relu()?
+                .apply(al3)?
+                .tanh()
+        });
+        let opt = nn::Adam::default()
+            .build(&var_store, learning_rate)
+            .unwrap();
+        let p = &var_store.root();
+        Self {
+            network,
+            num_obs,
+            num_actions,
+            varmap,
+            opt,
+            learning_rate,
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn forward(&self, obs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        obs.apply(&self.network)
+    }
+}
+
+struct Critic {
+    varmap: VarMap,
+    network: candle_nn::Func,
+    num_obs: usize,
+    num_actions: usize,
+    opt: candle_nn::AdamW,
+    learning_rate: f64,
+}
+
+impl Critic {
+    fn new(num_obs: usize, num_actions: usize, learning_rate: f64) -> Result<Self> {
+        let varmap = VarMap::new();
+        let vb = VarBuilder::from_varmap(&varmap, DType::F32, &Device::Cpu);
+        let cl1 = candle_nn::linear(num_obs + num_actions, 400, vb.pp("cl1"))?;
+        let cl2 = candle_nn::linear(400, 300, vb.pp("cl2"))?;
+        let cl3 = candle_nn::linear(300, 1, vb.pp("cl3"))?;
+        let network = Func::new(|xs| xs.apply(cl1)?.relu()?.apply(&cl2)?.relu()?.apply(cl3));
+        let adamw_params = candle_nn::ParamsAdamW {
+            lr: 1e-3,
+            ..Default::default()
+        };
+        let opt = AdamW::new(varmap.all_vars(), adamw_params);
+        Ok(Self {
+            network,
+            varmap,
+            num_obs,
+            num_actions,
+            opt,
+            learning_rate,
+        })
+    }
+
+    fn forward(&self, obs: &Tensor, actions: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let xs = Tensor::cat(&[actions, obs], 1)?;
+        xs.apply(&self.network)
+    }
+}
+
+/* TODO: enable tracking
+fn track(dest: &mut nn::VarStore, src: &nn::VarStore, tau: f64) {
+    tch::no_grad(|| {
+        for (dest, src) in dest
+            .trainable_variables()
+            .iter_mut()
+            .zip(src.trainable_variables().iter())
+        {
+            dest.copy_(&(tau * src + (1.0 - tau) * &*dest));
+        }
+    })
+}
+*/
+
+struct Agent {
+    actor: Actor,
+    actor_target: Actor,
+
+    critic: Critic,
+    critic_target: Critic,
+
+    replay_buffer: ReplayBuffer,
+
+    ou_noise: OuNoise,
+
+    train: bool,
+
+    gamma: f64,
+    tau: f64,
+}
+
+impl Agent {
+    fn new(
+        actor: Actor,
+        critic: Critic,
+        ou_noise: OuNoise,
+        replay_buffer_capacity: usize,
+        train: bool,
+        gamma: f64,
+        tau: f64,
+    ) -> Self {
+        let actor_target = actor.clone();
+        let critic_target = critic.clone();
+        let replay_buffer =
+            ReplayBuffer::new(replay_buffer_capacity, actor.num_obs, actor.num_actions);
+        Self {
+            actor,
+            actor_target,
+            critic,
+            critic_target,
+            replay_buffer,
+            ou_noise,
+            train,
+            gamma,
+            tau,
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn actions(&mut self, obs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let mut actions = tch::no_grad(|| self.actor.forward(obs));
+        if self.train {
+            actions += self.ou_noise.sample();
+        }
+        actions
+    }
+
+    fn remember(&mut self, obs: &Tensor, actions: &Tensor, reward: &Tensor, next_obs: &Tensor) {
+        self.replay_buffer.push(obs, actions, reward, next_obs);
+    }
+
+    fn train(&mut self, batch_size: usize) {
+        let (states, actions, rewards, next_states) =
+            match self.replay_buffer.random_batch(batch_size) {
+                Some(v) => v,
+                _ => return, // We don't have enough samples for training yet.
+            };
+
+        let mut q_target = self
+            .critic_target
+            .forward(&next_states, &self.actor_target.forward(&next_states));
+        q_target = rewards + (self.gamma * q_target).detach();
+
+        let q = self.critic.forward(&states, &actions);
+
+        let diff = q_target - q;
+        let critic_loss = (&diff * &diff).mean(Float);
+
+        self.critic.opt.zero_grad();
+        critic_loss.backward();
+        self.critic.opt.step();
+
+        let actor_loss = -self
+            .critic
+            .forward(&states, &self.actor.forward(&states))
+            .mean(Float);
+
+        self.actor.opt.zero_grad();
+        actor_loss.backward();
+        self.actor.opt.step();
+
+        track(
+            &mut self.critic_target.var_store,
+            &self.critic.var_store,
+            self.tau,
+        );
+        track(
+            &mut self.actor_target.var_store,
+            &self.actor.var_store,
+            self.tau,
+        );
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn run() -> Result<()> {
+    let env = GymEnv::new("Pendulum-v1")?;
+    println!("action space: {}", env.action_space());
+    println!("observation space: {:?}", env.observation_space());
+
+    let num_obs = env.observation_space().iter().product::<usize>();
+    let num_actions = env.action_space();
+
+    let actor = Actor::new(num_obs, num_actions, ACTOR_LEARNING_RATE);
+    let critic = Critic::new(num_obs, num_actions, CRITIC_LEARNING_RATE);
+    let ou_noise = OuNoise::new(MU, THETA, SIGMA, num_actions);
+    let mut agent = Agent::new(
+        actor,
+        critic,
+        ou_noise,
+        REPLAY_BUFFER_CAPACITY,
+        true,
+        GAMMA,
+        TAU,
+    );
+
+    for episode in 0..MAX_EPISODES as u64 {
+        let mut obs = env.reset(episode)?;
+
+        let mut total_reward = 0.0;
+        for _ in 0..EPISODE_LENGTH {
+            let actions: f32 = 2.0 * agent.actions(&obs)?.to_vec0::<f32>()?;
+            let actions = actions.clamp(-2.0, 2.0);
+            let step = env.step(vec![action_vec])?;
+            total_reward += step.reward;
+
+            agent.remember(&obs, &actions.into(), &step.reward.into(), &step.obs);
+
+            if step.is_done {
+                break;
+            }
+            obs = step.obs;
+        }
+
+        println!("episode {episode} with total reward of {total_reward}");
+
+        for _ in 0..TRAINING_ITERATIONS {
+            agent.train(TRAINING_BATCH_SIZE);
+        }
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/main.rs
index f16f042e..5571fb79 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/main.rs
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ extern crate intel_mkl_src;
 #[cfg(feature = "accelerate")]
 extern crate accelerate_src;
 
+mod ddpg;
 mod gym_env;
 mod vec_gym_env;