diff --git a/serl_launcher/serl_launcher/utils/jaxrl_m_common.py b/serl_launcher/serl_launcher/utils/jaxrl_m_common.py
index d0b40304..6e8525ad 100644
--- a/serl_launcher/serl_launcher/utils/jaxrl_m_common.py
+++ b/serl_launcher/serl_launcher/utils/jaxrl_m_common.py
@@ -6,10 +6,14 @@
 from collections import deque
 from functools import partial
 from threading import Lock
+from typing import Union, Iterable
 
 import gymnasium as gym
 import jax
 from serl_launcher.data.serl_replay_buffer import ReplayBuffer
+from serl_launcher.data.serl_memory_efficient_replay_buffer import (
+    MemoryEfficientReplayBuffer,
+)
 
 from edgeml.data.data_store import DataStoreBase
 from edgeml.trainer import TrainerConfig
@@ -17,8 +21,9 @@
 from jax import nn
 from jaxrl_m.agents.continuous.sac import SACAgent
 from jaxrl_m.common.wandb import WandBLogger
-
-##############################################################################
+from jaxrl_m.agents.continuous.drq import DrQAgent
+from jaxrl_m.vision.small_encoders import SmallEncoder
+from jaxrl_m.vision.mobilenet import MobileNetEncoder
 
 
 class ReplayBufferDataStore(ReplayBuffer, DataStoreBase):
@@ -51,6 +56,41 @@ def get_latest_data(self, from_id: int):
         raise NotImplementedError  # TODO
 
 
+class MemoryEfficientReplayBufferDataStore(MemoryEfficientReplayBuffer, DataStoreBase):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        observation_space: gym.Space,
+        action_space: gym.Space,
+        capacity: int,
+        image_keys: Iterable[str] = ("image",),
+    ):
+        MemoryEfficientReplayBuffer.__init__(
+            self, observation_space, action_space, capacity, pixel_keys=image_keys
+        )
+        DataStoreBase.__init__(self, capacity)
+        self._lock = Lock()
+
+    # ensure thread safety
+    def insert(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        with self._lock:
+            super(MemoryEfficientReplayBufferDataStore, self).insert(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    # ensure thread safety
+    def sample(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        with self._lock:
+            return super(MemoryEfficientReplayBufferDataStore, self).sample(
+                *args, **kwargs
+            )
+
+    # NOTE: method for DataStoreBase
+    def latest_data_id(self):
+        return self._insert_index
+
+    # NOTE: method for DataStoreBase
+    def get_latest_data(self, from_id: int):
+        raise NotImplementedError  # TODO
+
+
 ##############################################################################
 
 
@@ -62,6 +102,79 @@ def make_sac_agent(seed, sample_obs, sample_action):
         policy_kwargs={
             "tanh_squash_distribution": True,
             "std_parameterization": "exp",
+            "std_min": 1e-5,
+            "std_max": 5,
+        },
+        critic_network_kwargs={
+            "activations": nn.tanh,
+            "use_layer_norm": True,
+            "hidden_dims": [256, 256],
+        },
+        policy_network_kwargs={
+            "activations": nn.tanh,
+            "use_layer_norm": True,
+            "hidden_dims": [256, 256],
+        },
+        temperature_init=1e-2,
+        discount=0.99,
+        backup_entropy=False,
+        critic_ensemble_size=10,
+        critic_subsample_size=2,
+    )
+
+
+def make_drq_agent(
+    seed, sample_obs, sample_action, image_keys=("image",), encoder_type="small"
+):
+    if encoder_type == "small":
+        encoder_defs = {
+            image_key: SmallEncoder(
+                features=(32, 64, 128, 256),
+                kernel_sizes=(3, 3, 3, 3),
+                strides=(2, 2, 2, 2),
+                padding="VALID",
+                pool_method="avg",
+                bottleneck_dim=256,
+                spatial_block_size=8,
+                name=f"encoder_{image_key}",
+            )
+            for image_key in image_keys
+        }
+    elif encoder_type == "mobilenet":
+        from jeffnet.linen import create_model
+
+        # encoder, encoder_params = create_model('tf_mobilenetv3_large_100', pretrained=True)
+        encoder, encoder_params = create_model(
+            "tf_mobilenetv3_small_minimal_100", pretrained=True
+        )
+        encoder_defs = {
+            image_key: MobileNetEncoder(
+                encoder=encoder,
+                params=encoder_params,
+                pool_method="spatial_learned_embeddings",
+                bottleneck_dim=256,
+                spatial_block_size=8,
+                name=f"encoder_{image_key}",
+            )
+            for image_key in image_keys
+        }
+    elif encoder_type == "resnet":
+        raise NotImplementedError(f"Unknown encoder type: {encoder_type}")
+    else:
+        raise NotImplementedError(f"Unknown encoder type: {encoder_type}")
+
+    return DrQAgent.create_drq(
+        jax.random.PRNGKey(seed),
+        sample_obs,
+        sample_action,
+        encoder=encoder_defs,
+        use_proprio=True,
+        image_keys=image_keys,
+        policy_kwargs={
+            "tanh_squash_distribution": True,
+            "std_parameterization": "exp",
+            "std_min": 1e-5,
+            "std_max": 5,
         },
         critic_network_kwargs={
             "activations": nn.tanh,