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Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On

You're reading from   Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On Apply modern RL methods, with deep Q-networks, value iteration, policy gradients, TRPO, AlphaGo Zero and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788834247
Length 546 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Maxim Lapan Maxim Lapan
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. What is Reinforcement Learning? FREE CHAPTER 2. OpenAI Gym 3. Deep Learning with PyTorch 4. The Cross-Entropy Method 5. Tabular Learning and the Bellman Equation 6. Deep Q-Networks 7. DQN Extensions 8. Stocks Trading Using RL 9. Policy Gradients – An Alternative 10. The Actor-Critic Method 11. Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic 12. Chatbots Training with RL 13. Web Navigation 14. Continuous Action Space 15. Trust Regions – TRPO, PPO, and ACKTR 16. Black-Box Optimization in RL 17. Beyond Model-Free – Imagination 18. AlphaGo Zero Other Books You May Enjoy Index

The PyTorch Agent Net library

In Chapter 6, Deep Q-Networks, we implemented a DQN from scratch, using only PyTorch, OpenAI Gym, and pytorch-tensorboard. It suited our needs to demonstrate how things work, but now we're going to extend the basic DQN with extra tweaks. Some tweaks are quite simple and trivial, but some will require a major code modification. To be able to focus only on the significant parts, it would be useful to have as small and concise version of a DQN as possible, preferably with reusable code pieces. This will be extremely helpful when you're experimenting with some methods published in papers or your own ideas. In that case, you don't need to reimplement the same functionality again and again, fighting with the inevitable bugs.

With this in mind, some time ago I started to implement my own toolkit for the deep RL domain. I called it PTAN, which stands for PyTorch Agent Net, as it was inspired by another open-source library called AgentNet...

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