Hi there 
TLDR: it’s just a fancy way to decay the epsilon
As you say, if you want the parameter to decay halfway you can change this via this parameter. Have a look at this link 23 where you can change the value to see how the decay changes. If eps_decay = 100, then the eps will be 0.363 at time step 100.

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