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You're reading from Python Reinforcement Learning Projects Eight hands-on projects exploring reinforcement learning algorithms using TensorFlow

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788991612

Length 296 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Keras

Concepts

Reinforcement Learning

Authors (3):

Sean Saito

Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani

Yang Wenzhuo

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Up and Running with Reinforcement Learning

2. Balancing CartPole FREE CHAPTER

3. Playing Atari Games

4. Simulating Control Tasks

5. Building Virtual Worlds in Minecraft

6. Learning to Play Go

7. Creating a Chatbot

8. Generating a Deep Learning Image Classifier

9. Predicting Future Stock Prices

10. Looking Ahead

11. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Introduction to the Minecraft environment

The original OpenAI Gym does not contain the Minecraft environment. We need to install a Minecraft environment bundle, available at https://github.com/tambetm/gym-minecraft. This bundle is built based on Microsoft's Malmö, which is a platform for AI experimentation and research built on top of Minecraft.

Before installing the gym-minecraft package, Malmö should first be downloaded from https://github.com/Microsoft/malmo. We can download the latest pre-built version from https://github.com/Microsoft/malmo/releases. After unzipping the package, go to the Minecraft folder and run launchClient.bat on Windows, or launchClient.sh on Linux/MacOS, to launch a Minecraft environment. If it is successfully launched, we can now install gym-minecraft via the following scripts:

python3 -m pip install gym
python3...

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Authors (3)

Sean Saito

Sean Saito is the youngest ever Machine Learning Developer at SAP and the first bachelor hired for the position. He currently researches and develops machine learning algorithms that automate financial processes. He graduated from Yale-NUS College in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science degree (with Honours), where he explored unsupervised feature extraction for his thesis. Having a profound interest in hackathons, Sean represented Singapore during Data Science Game 2016, the largest student data science competition. Before attending university in Singapore, Sean grew up in Tokyo, Los Angeles, and Boston.

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Shanmugamani

Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani is currently working as an Engineering Manager for a Deep learning team at Kairos. Previously, he worked as a Senior Machine Learning Developer at SAP, Singapore and worked at various startups in developing machine learning products. He has a Masters from Indian Institute of TechnologyMadras. He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and submitted applications for several patents in the area of machine learning. In his spare time, he coaches programming and machine learning to school students and engineers.

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Yang Wenzhuo

Yang Wenzhuo works as a Data Scientist at SAP, Singapore. He got a bachelor's degree in computer science from Zhejiang University in 2011 and a Ph.D. in machine learning from the National University of Singapore in 2016. His research focuses on optimization in machine learning and deep reinforcement learning. He has published papers on top machine learning/computer vision conferences including ICML and CVPR, and operations research journals including Mathematical Programming.

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