Policy Gradient Theorem

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In the REINFORCE algorithm, the policy gradient is \nabla_{θ} J = E [\sum_{t} \nabla_{θ} lo g π_{θ} (a_{t} ∣ s_{t}) G_{t}] . Why is subtracting a baseline b (s_{t}) from G_{t} useful even though it does not change the expected gradient?