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Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On

With six new chapters, Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On Second edition is completely updated and expanded with the very latest reinforcement learning (RL) tools and techniques, providing you with an introduction to RL, as well as the hands-on ability to code intelligent learning agents to perform a range of practical tasks.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

27h32m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

Some fluency in Python is assumed. Sound understanding of the fundamentals of deep learning will be helpful. This book is an introduction to deep RL and requires no background in RL

Book content

chapters 27h32m total length

What Is Reinforcement Learning?

OpenAI Gym

Deep Learning with PyTorch

The Cross-Entropy Method

Tabular Learning and the Bellman Equation

Deep Q-Networks

Higher-Level RL libraries

DQN Extensions

Ways to Speed up RL

Stocks Trading Using RL

Policy Gradients – an Alternative

The Actor-Critic Method

Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic

Training Chatbots with RL

The TextWorld environment

Web Navigation

Continuous Action Space

RL in Robotics

Trust Regions – PPO, TRPO, ACKTR, and SAC

Black-Box Optimization in RL

Advanced exploration

Beyond Model-Free – Imagination

AlphaGo Zero

RL in Discrete Optimisation

Multi-agent RL

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