[bug-fix] Fix memory leak when using LSTMs #5048
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LSTMs would store the memory as a tensor, and keep a gradient. So the next time around, Torch would try to backprop through this gradient. For long episodes, this caused the graph to explode.
Note that this does not affect previous releases of ML-Agents (R13 and earlier)
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