How to properly optimize shared network between actor and critic?

I’m building an actor-critic reinforcment learning algorithm to solve environments. I want to use a single encoder to find representation of my environment.

When I share the encoder with the actor and the critic, my network isn’t learning anything:

class Encoder(nn.Module):
  def __init__(self, state_dim):
    super(Encoder, self).__init__()

    self.l1 = nn.Linear(state_dim, 512)

  def forward(self, state):
    a = F.relu(self.l1(state))
    return a

class Actor(nn.Module):
  def __init__(self, state_dim, action_dim, max_action):
    super(Actor, self).__init__()

    self.l1 = nn.Linear(state_dim, 128)
    self.l3 = nn.Linear(128, action_dim)

    self.max_action = max_action

  def forward(self, state):
    a = F.relu(self.l1(state))
    # a = F.relu(self.l2(a))
    a = torch.tanh(self.l3(a)) * self.max_action
    return a

class Critic(nn.Module):
  def __init__(self, state_dim, action_dim):
    super(Critic, self).__init__()

    self.l1 = nn.Linear(state_dim + action_dim, 128)
    self.l3 = nn.Linear(128, 1)

  def forward(self, state, action):
    state_action = torch.cat([state, action], 1)

    q = F.relu(self.l1(state_action))
    # q = F.relu(self.l2(q))
    q = self.l3(q)
    return q

However, when I use different encoder for the actor and different for the critic, it learn properly.

class Actor(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, state_dim, action_dim, max_action):
    super(Actor, self).__init__()

    self.l1 = nn.Linear(state_dim, 400)
    self.l2 = nn.Linear(400, 300)
    self.l3 = nn.Linear(300, action_dim)

    self.max_action = max_action

def forward(self, state):
    a = F.relu(self.l1(state))
    a = F.relu(self.l2(a))
    a = torch.tanh(self.l3(a)) * self.max_action
    return a

class Critic(nn.Module):
  def __init__(self, state_dim, action_dim):
    super(Critic, self).__init__()

    self.l1 = nn.Linear(state_dim + action_dim, 400)
    self.l2 = nn.Linear(400, 300)
    self.l3 = nn.Linear(300, 1)

  def forward(self, state, action):
    state_action = torch.cat([state, action], 1)

    q = F.relu(self.l1(state_action))
    q = F.relu(self.l2(q))
    q = self.l3(q)
    return q

Im pretty sure its becuase of the optimizer. In the shared encoder code, I define it as foolow:

self.actor_optimizer = optim.Adam(list(self.actor.parameters())+
                                      list(self.encoder.parameters()))
self.critic_optimizer = optim.Adam(list(self.critic.parameters()))
                                         +list(self.encoder.parameters()))

In the seperate encoder, its just:

self.actor_optimizer = optim.Adam((self.actor.parameters()))
self.critic_optimizer = optim.Adam((self.critic.parameters()))

two optimizers must be becuase of the actor critic algorithm, in which the loss of the actor is the value.

How can I combine two optimizers to optimize correctly the encoder?