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Reinforcement Learning with TensorFlow

You're reading from   Reinforcement Learning with TensorFlow A beginner's guide to designing self-learning systems with TensorFlow and OpenAI Gym

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835725
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Deep Learning – Architectures and Frameworks FREE CHAPTER 2. Training Reinforcement Learning Agents Using OpenAI Gym 3. Markov Decision Process 4. Policy Gradients 5. Q-Learning and Deep Q-Networks 6. Asynchronous Methods 7. Robo Everything – Real Strategy Gaming 8. AlphaGo – Reinforcement Learning at Its Best 9. Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Driving 10. Financial Portfolio Management 11. Reinforcement Learning in Robotics 12. Deep Reinforcement Learning in Ad Tech 13. Reinforcement Learning in Image Processing 14. Deep Reinforcement Learning in NLP 15. Further topics in Reinforcement Learning 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

To get the most out of this book

The following are the requirements to get the most out of this book:

  • Python and TensorFlow
  • Linear algebra as a prerequisite for neural networks
  • Installation bundle: Python, TensorFlow, and OpenAI gym (shown in Chapter 1Deep Learning – Architectures and Frameworks and Chapter 2, Training Reinforcement Learning Agents Using OpenAI Gym)

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CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The sigmoid(x) and relu(x) refer to the functions performing sigmoid and ReLU activation calculations respectively."

A block of code is set as follows:

def discretization(env, obs):

env_low = env.observation_space.low
env_high = env.observation_space.high

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

Episode 1 completed with total reward 8433.30289388 in 26839 steps
Episode 2 completed with total reward 3072.93369963 in 8811 steps
Episode 3 completed with total reward 1230.81734028 in 4395 steps
Episode 4 completed with total reward 2182.31111239 in 6629 steps

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