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Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On

You're reading from   Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On Apply modern RL methods to practical problems of chatbots, robotics, discrete optimization, web automation, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838826994
Length 826 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Maxim Lapan Maxim Lapan
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Table of Contents (28) Chapters Close

Preface 1. What Is Reinforcement Learning? 2. OpenAI Gym FREE CHAPTER 3. Deep Learning with PyTorch 4. The Cross-Entropy Method 5. Tabular Learning and the Bellman Equation 6. Deep Q-Networks 7. Higher-Level RL Libraries 8. DQN Extensions 9. Ways to Speed up RL 10. Stocks Trading Using RL 11. Policy Gradients – an Alternative 12. The Actor-Critic Method 13. Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic 14. Training Chatbots with RL 15. The TextWorld Environment 16. Web Navigation 17. Continuous Action Space 18. RL in Robotics 19. Trust Regions – PPO, TRPO, ACKTR, and SAC 20. Black-Box Optimization in RL 21. Advanced Exploration 22. Beyond Model-Free – Imagination 23. AlphaGo Zero 24. RL in Discrete Optimization 25. Multi-agent RL 26. Other Books You May Enjoy
27. Index

DQN on Pong

Before we jump into the code, some introduction is needed. Our examples are becoming increasingly challenging and complex, which is not surprising, as the complexity of the problems that we are trying to tackle is also growing. The examples are as simple and concise as possible, but some of the code may be difficult to understand at first.

Another thing to note is performance. Our previous examples for FrozenLake, or CartPole, were not demanding from a performance perspective, as observations were small, NN parameters were tiny, and shaving off extra milliseconds in the training loop wasn't important. However, from now on, that's not the case. One single observation from the Atari environment is 100k values, which have to be rescaled, converted to floats, and stored in the replay buffer. One extra copy of this data array can cost you training speed, which will not be seconds and minutes anymore, but could be hours on even the fastest graphics processing unit...

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