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Reinforcement Learning Algorithms with Python

You're reading from   Reinforcement Learning Algorithms with Python Learn, understand, and develop smart algorithms for addressing AI challenges

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789131116
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrea Lonza Andrea Lonza
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Algorithms and Environments
2. The Landscape of Reinforcement Learning FREE CHAPTER 3. Implementing RL Cycle and OpenAI Gym 4. Solving Problems with Dynamic Programming 5. Section 2: Model-Free RL Algorithms
6. Q-Learning and SARSA Applications 7. Deep Q-Network 8. Learning Stochastic and PG Optimization 9. TRPO and PPO Implementation 10. DDPG and TD3 Applications 11. Section 3: Beyond Model-Free Algorithms and Improvements
12. Model-Based RL 13. Imitation Learning with the DAgger Algorithm 14. Understanding Black-Box Optimization Algorithms 15. Developing the ESBAS Algorithm 16. Practical Implementation for Resolving RL Challenges 17. Assessments
18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Developing the ESBAS Algorithm

By now, you are capable of approaching RL problems in a systematic and concise way. You are able to design and develop RL algorithms specifically for the problem at hand and get the most from the environment. Moreover, in the previous two chapters, you learned about algorithms that go beyond RL, but that can be used to solve the same set of tasks.

At the beginning of this chapter, we'll present a dilemma that we have already encountered in many of the previous chapters; namely, the exploration-exploitation dilemma. We have already presented potential solutions for the dilemma throughout the book (such as the -greedy strategy), but we want to give you a more comprehensive outlook on the problem, and a more concise view of the algorithms that solve it. Many of them, such as the upper confidence bound (UCB) algorithm, are more sophisticated and...

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