diff --git a/python/ray/rllib/a3c/LSTM.py b/python/ray/rllib/a3c/LSTM.py
index 4ddb0cb56..96a5398d8 100644
--- a/python/ray/rllib/a3c/LSTM.py
+++ b/python/ray/rllib/a3c/LSTM.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ class LSTMPolicy(Policy):
         In this A3C implementation, both the Critic and the Actor share the
         model.
         """
+        num_actions = ac_space.n
         self.x = x = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None] + list(ob_space))
 
         for i in range(4):
@@ -54,12 +55,12 @@ class LSTMPolicy(Policy):
             time_major=False)
         lstm_c, lstm_h = lstm_state
         x = tf.reshape(lstm_outputs, [-1, size])
-        self.logits = linear(x, ac_space, "action",
+        self.logits = linear(x, num_actions, "action",
                              normalized_columns_initializer(0.01))
         self.vf = tf.reshape(linear(x, 1, "value",
                                     normalized_columns_initializer(1.0)), [-1])
         self.state_out = [lstm_c[:1, :], lstm_h[:1, :]]
-        self.sample = categorical_sample(self.logits, ac_space)[0, :]
+        self.sample = categorical_sample(self.logits, num_actions)[0, :]
         self.var_list = tf.get_collection(tf.GraphKeys.TRAINABLE_VARIABLES,
                                           tf.get_variable_scope().name)
         self.global_step = tf.get_variable(
@@ -81,16 +82,24 @@ class LSTMPolicy(Policy):
             self.state_in[0]: batch.features[0],
             self.state_in[1]: batch.features[1]
         }
+        info = {}
         self.local_steps += 1
-        return self.sess.run(self.grads, feed_dict=feed_dict)
+        if self.summarize:
+            grad, summ = self.sess.run([self.grads, self.summary_op],
+                                       feed_dict=feed_dict)
+            info['summary'] = summ
+        else:
+            grad = self.sess.run(self.grads, feed_dict=feed_dict)
+        return grad, info
 
-    def act(self, ob, c, h):
+    def compute_actions(self, ob, c, h):
         return self.sess.run([self.sample, self.vf] + self.state_out,
                              {self.x: [ob],
                               self.state_in[0]: c,
                               self.state_in[1]: h})
 
     def value(self, ob, c, h):
+        # process_rollout is very non-intuitive due to value being a float
         return self.sess.run(self.vf, {self.x: [ob],
                                        self.state_in[0]: c,
                                        self.state_in[1]: h})[0]
diff --git a/python/ray/rllib/a3c/a3c.py b/python/ray/rllib/a3c/a3c.py
index f0b909e4f..e19b75120 100644
--- a/python/ray/rllib/a3c/a3c.py
+++ b/python/ray/rllib/a3c/a3c.py
@@ -8,15 +8,16 @@ import six.moves.queue as queue
 import os
 
 import ray
-from ray.rllib.a3c.LSTM import LSTMPolicy
 from ray.rllib.a3c.runner import RunnerThread, process_rollout
 from ray.rllib.a3c.envs import create_env
 from ray.rllib.common import Algorithm, TrainingResult
+from ray.rllib.a3c.shared_model import SharedModel
 
 
 DEFAULT_CONFIG = {
     "num_workers": 4,
     "num_batches_per_iteration": 100,
+    "batch_size": 10
 }
 
 
@@ -26,17 +27,15 @@ class Runner(object):
 
     The gradient computation is also executed from this object.
     """
-    def __init__(self, env_name, actor_id, logdir, start=True):
+    def __init__(self, env_name, policy_cls, actor_id, batch_size, logdir):
         env = create_env(env_name)
         self.id = actor_id
-        num_actions = env.action_space.n
-        self.policy = LSTMPolicy(env.observation_space.shape, num_actions,
-                                 actor_id)
-        self.runner = RunnerThread(env, self.policy, 20)
+        # TODO(rliaw): should change this to be just env.observation_space
+        self.policy = policy_cls(env.observation_space.shape, env.action_space)
+        self.runner = RunnerThread(env, self.policy, batch_size)
         self.env = env
         self.logdir = logdir
-        if start:
-            self.start()
+        self.start()
 
     def pull_batch_from_queue(self):
         """Take a rollout from the queue of the thread runner."""
@@ -76,21 +75,28 @@ class Runner(object):
         self.policy.set_weights(params)
         rollout = self.pull_batch_from_queue()
         batch = process_rollout(rollout, gamma=0.99, lambda_=1.0)
-        gradient = self.policy.get_gradients(batch)
+        gradient, info = self.policy.get_gradients(batch)
+        if "summary" in info:
+            self.summary_writer.add_summary(
+                tf.Summary.FromString(info['summary']),
+                self.policy.local_steps)
+            self.summary_writer.flush()
         info = {"id": self.id,
                 "size": len(batch.a)}
         return gradient, info
 
 
 class A3C(Algorithm):
-    def __init__(self, env_name, config, upload_dir=None):
+    def __init__(self, env_name, config,
+                 policy_cls=SharedModel, upload_dir=None):
         config.update({"alg": "A3C"})
         Algorithm.__init__(self, env_name, config, upload_dir=upload_dir)
         self.env = create_env(env_name)
-        self.policy = LSTMPolicy(
-            self.env.observation_space.shape, self.env.action_space.n, 0)
+        self.policy = policy_cls(
+            self.env.observation_space.shape, self.env.action_space)
         self.agents = [
-            Runner.remote(env_name, i, self.logdir)
+            Runner.remote(env_name, policy_cls, i,
+                          config["batch_size"], self.logdir)
             for i in range(config["num_workers"])]
         self.parameters = self.policy.get_weights()
         self.iteration = 0
@@ -124,7 +130,9 @@ class A3C(Algorithm):
             for episode in ray.get(metrics):
                 episode_lengths.append(episode.episode_length)
                 episode_rewards.append(episode.episode_reward)
+        avg_reward = np.mean(episode_rewards) if episode_rewards else None
+        avg_length = np.mean(episode_lengths) if episode_lengths else None
         res = TrainingResult(
             self.experiment_id.hex, self.iteration,
-            np.mean(episode_rewards), np.mean(episode_lengths), dict())
+            avg_reward, avg_length, dict())
         return res
diff --git a/python/ray/rllib/a3c/envs.py b/python/ray/rllib/a3c/envs.py
index 95f26f544..cd01901f4 100644
--- a/python/ray/rllib/a3c/envs.py
+++ b/python/ray/rllib/a3c/envs.py
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
 
 def create_env(env_id):
     env = gym.make(env_id)
-    env = AtariProcessing(env)
-    env = Diagnostic(env)
+    if hasattr(env.env, "ale"):
+        env = AtariProcessing(env)
+        env = Diagnostic(env)
     return env
 
 
@@ -34,6 +35,17 @@ def _process_frame42(frame):
     return frame
 
 
+def _process_frame80(frame):
+    frame = frame[34:(34 + 160), :160]
+    # Resize by half, then down to 80x80.
+    frame = cv2.resize(frame, (80, 80))
+    frame = frame.mean(2)
+    frame = frame.astype(np.float32)
+    frame *= (1.0 / 255.0)
+    frame = np.reshape(frame, [80, 80, 1])
+    return frame
+
+
 class AtariProcessing(gym.ObservationWrapper):
     def __init__(self, env=None):
         super(AtariProcessing, self).__init__(env)
diff --git a/python/ray/rllib/a3c/example.py b/python/ray/rllib/a3c/example.py
index de66693e1..8b794ecf4 100755
--- a/python/ray/rllib/a3c/example.py
+++ b/python/ray/rllib/a3c/example.py
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ from ray.rllib.a3c import A3C, DEFAULT_CONFIG
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Run the A3C algorithm.")
-    parser.add_argument("--environment", default="PongDeterministic-v3",
+    parser.add_argument("--environment", default="PongDeterministic-v4",
                         type=str, help="The gym environment to use.")
     parser.add_argument("--redis-address", default=None, type=str,
                         help="The Redis address of the cluster.")
-    parser.add_argument("--num-workers", default=4, type=int,
+    parser.add_argument("--num-workers", default=16, type=int,
                         help="The number of A3C workers to use.")
     parser.add_argument("--iterations", default=-1, type=int,
                         help="The number of training iterations to run.")
diff --git a/python/ray/rllib/a3c/policy.py b/python/ray/rllib/a3c/policy.py
index f5335c404..055948973 100644
--- a/python/ray/rllib/a3c/policy.py
+++ b/python/ray/rllib/a3c/policy.py
@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ import ray
 
 class Policy(object):
     """The policy base class."""
-    def __init__(self, ob_space, ac_space, task, name="local"):
+    def __init__(self, ob_space, ac_space, name="local", summarize=True):
         self.local_steps = 0
+        self.summarize = summarize
         worker_device = "/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/cpu:0"
         self.g = tf.Graph()
         with self.g.as_default(), tf.device(worker_device):
@@ -25,7 +26,8 @@ class Policy(object):
     def setup_graph(self):
         raise NotImplementedError
 
-    def setup_loss(self, num_actions, summarize=True):
+    def setup_loss(self, ac_space):
+        num_actions = ac_space.n
         self.ac = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None, num_actions], name="ac")
         self.adv = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None], name="adv")
         self.r = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None], name="r")
@@ -42,7 +44,6 @@ class Policy(object):
 
         # loss of value function
         vf_loss = 0.5 * tf.reduce_sum(tf.square(self.vf - self.r))
-        vf_loss = tf.Print(vf_loss, [vf_loss], "Value Fn Loss")
         entropy = - tf.reduce_sum(prob_tf * log_prob_tf)
 
         bs = tf.to_float(tf.shape(self.x)[0])
@@ -55,11 +56,12 @@ class Policy(object):
         opt = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(1e-4)
         self._apply_gradients = opt.apply_gradients(grads_and_vars)
 
-        if summarize:
+        if self.summarize:
             tf.summary.scalar("model/policy_loss", pi_loss / bs)
             tf.summary.scalar("model/value_loss", vf_loss / bs)
             tf.summary.scalar("model/entropy", entropy / bs)
-            tf.summary.image("model/state", self.x)
+            tf.summary.scalar("model/grad_gnorm", tf.global_norm(self.grads))
+            tf.summary.scalar("model/var_gnorm", tf.global_norm(self.var_list))
             self.summary_op = tf.summary.merge_all()
 
     def initialize(self):
@@ -87,7 +89,7 @@ class Policy(object):
     def get_vf_loss(self):
         raise NotImplementedError
 
-    def act(self, ob):
+    def compute_actions(self, observations):
         raise NotImplementedError
 
     def value(self, ob):
diff --git a/python/ray/rllib/a3c/runner.py b/python/ray/rllib/a3c/runner.py
index 2119f419c..7a9338f7d 100644
--- a/python/ray/rllib/a3c/runner.py
+++ b/python/ray/rllib/a3c/runner.py
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ def env_runner(env, policy, num_local_steps, summary_writer, render):
         rollout = PartialRollout()
 
         for _ in range(num_local_steps):
-            fetched = policy.act(last_state, *last_features)
+            fetched = policy.compute_actions(last_state, *last_features)
             action, value_, features = fetched[0], fetched[1], fetched[2:]
             # Argmax to convert from one-hot.
             state, reward, terminal, info = env.step(action.argmax())
diff --git a/python/ray/rllib/a3c/shared_model.py b/python/ray/rllib/a3c/shared_model.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cd0793d52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/ray/rllib/a3c/shared_model.py
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from __future__ import division
+from __future__ import print_function
+
+import tensorflow as tf
+from ray.rllib.a3c.policy import (
+    categorical_sample, linear,
+    normalized_columns_initializer, Policy)
+
+from ray.rllib.models.catalog import ModelCatalog
+
+
+class SharedModel(Policy):
+    def __init__(self, ob_space, ac_space, **kwargs):
+        super(SharedModel, self).__init__(ob_space, ac_space, **kwargs)
+
+    def setup_graph(self, ob_space, ac_space):
+        num_actions = ac_space.n
+        self.x = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None] + list(ob_space))
+        dist_class, dist_dim = ModelCatalog.get_action_dist(ac_space)
+        self._model = ModelCatalog.ConvolutionalNetwork(self.x, dist_dim)
+        self.logits = self._model.outputs
+        self.vf = tf.reshape(linear(self._model.last_layer, 1, "value",
+                                    normalized_columns_initializer(1.0)), [-1])
+
+        self.sample = categorical_sample(self.logits, num_actions)[0, :]
+        self.var_list = tf.get_collection(tf.GraphKeys.TRAINABLE_VARIABLES,
+                                          tf.get_variable_scope().name)
+        self.global_step = tf.get_variable(
+            "global_step", [], tf.int32,
+            initializer=tf.constant_initializer(0, dtype=tf.int32),
+            trainable=False)
+
+    def get_gradients(self, batch):
+        info = {}
+        feed_dict = {
+            self.x: batch.si,
+            self.ac: batch.a,
+            self.adv: batch.adv,
+            self.r: batch.r,
+        }
+
+        self.local_steps += 1
+        if self.summarize:
+            grad, summ = self.sess.run([self.grads, self.summary_op],
+                                       feed_dict=feed_dict)
+            info['summary'] = summ
+        else:
+            grad = self.sess.run(self.grads, feed_dict=feed_dict)
+        return grad, info
+
+    def compute_actions(self, ob, *args):
+        return self.sess.run([self.sample, self.vf],
+                             {self.x: [ob]})
+
+    def value(self, ob, *args):
+        return self.sess.run(self.vf, {self.x: [ob]})[0]
+
+    def get_initial_features(self):
+        return []
diff --git a/python/ray/rllib/models/catalog.py b/python/ray/rllib/models/catalog.py
index a5548643f..af0ec0538 100644
--- a/python/ray/rllib/models/catalog.py
+++ b/python/ray/rllib/models/catalog.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from ray.rllib.models.action_dist import (
     Categorical, Deterministic, DiagGaussian)
 from ray.rllib.models.fcnet import FullyConnectedNetwork
 from ray.rllib.models.visionnet import VisionNetwork
+from ray.rllib.models.convnet import ConvolutionalNetwork
 
 
 class ModelCatalog(object):
@@ -67,6 +68,10 @@ class ModelCatalog(object):
 
         return FullyConnectedNetwork(inputs, num_outputs, options)
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def ConvolutionalNetwork(inputs, num_outputs, options=None):
+        return ConvolutionalNetwork(inputs, num_outputs, options)
+
     @staticmethod
     def get_preprocessor(env_name):
         """Returns a suitable processor for the given environment.
diff --git a/python/ray/rllib/models/convnet.py b/python/ray/rllib/models/convnet.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ece6f17b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/ray/rllib/models/convnet.py
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from __future__ import division
+from __future__ import print_function
+
+import tensorflow as tf
+import numpy as np
+
+from ray.rllib.models.model import Model
+from ray.rllib.models.misc import normc_initializer
+
+
+def conv2d(x, num_filters, name, filter_size=(3, 3), stride=(1, 1), pad="SAME",
+           dtype=tf.float32, collections=None):
+    with tf.variable_scope(name):
+        stride_shape = [1, stride[0], stride[1], 1]
+        filter_shape = [filter_size[0], filter_size[1], int(x.get_shape()[3]),
+                        num_filters]
+
+        # There are "num input feature maps * filter height * filter width"
+        # inputs to each hidden unit.
+        fan_in = np.prod(filter_shape[:3])
+        # Each unit in the lower layer receives a gradient from: "num output
+        # feature maps * filter height * filter width" / pooling size.
+        fan_out = np.prod(filter_shape[:2]) * num_filters
+        # Initialize weights with random weights.
+        w_bound = np.sqrt(6 / (fan_in + fan_out))
+
+        w = tf.get_variable("W", filter_shape, dtype,
+                            tf.random_uniform_initializer(-w_bound, w_bound),
+                            collections=collections)
+        b = tf.get_variable("b", [1, 1, 1, num_filters],
+                            initializer=tf.constant_initializer(0.0),
+                            collections=collections)
+        return tf.nn.conv2d(x, w, stride_shape, pad) + b
+
+
+def linear(x, size, name, initializer=None, bias_init=0):
+    w = tf.get_variable(name + "/w", [x.get_shape()[1], size],
+                        initializer=initializer)
+    b = tf.get_variable(name + "/b", [size],
+                        initializer=tf.constant_initializer(bias_init))
+    return tf.matmul(x, w) + b
+
+
+class ConvolutionalNetwork(Model):
+    """Generic convolutional network."""
+
+    def _init(self, inputs, num_outputs, options):
+        x = inputs
+        with tf.name_scope("convnet"):
+            for i in range(4):
+                x = tf.nn.elu(conv2d(x, 32, "l{}".format(i+1), [3, 3], [2, 2]))
+            r, c = x.shape[1].value, x.shape[2].value
+            x = tf.reshape(x, [-1, r*c*32])
+            fc1 = linear(x, 256, "fc1")
+            fc2 = linear(x, num_outputs, "fc2", normc_initializer(0.01))
+            return fc2, fc1
diff --git a/python/ray/rllib/models/misc.py b/python/ray/rllib/models/misc.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0044a021e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/ray/rllib/models/misc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from __future__ import division
+from __future__ import print_function
+
+import tensorflow as tf
+
+import numpy as np
+
+
+def normc_initializer(std=1.0):
+    def _initializer(shape, dtype=None, partition_info=None):
+        out = np.random.randn(*shape).astype(np.float32)
+        out *= std / np.sqrt(np.square(out).sum(axis=0, keepdims=True))
+        return tf.constant(out)
+    return _initializer