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Hands-On Q-Learning with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Q-Learning with Python Practical Q-learning with OpenAI Gym, Keras, and TensorFlow

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789345803
Length 212 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nazia Habib Nazia Habib
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Q-Learning: A Roadmap FREE CHAPTER
2. Brushing Up on Reinforcement Learning Concepts 3. Getting Started with the Q-Learning Algorithm 4. Setting Up Your First Environment with OpenAI Gym 5. Teaching a Smartcab to Drive Using Q-Learning 6. Section 2: Building and Optimizing Q-Learning Agents
7. Building Q-Networks with TensorFlow 8. Digging Deeper into Deep Q-Networks with Keras and TensorFlow 9. Section 3: Advanced Q-Learning Challenges with Keras, TensorFlow, and OpenAI Gym
10. Decoupling Exploration and Exploitation in Multi-Armed Bandits 11. Further Q-Learning Research and Future Projects 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building your first Q-network

We are using the TensorFlow framework to build a Q-network that will solve the Taxi-v2 task. Note that this is a single-layer network, so it does not qualify as a deep Q-network. We'll be building a deep Q-network implementation in the next chapter.

Many people use the term "deep learning" in association with any machine learning model that uses neural networks, and, in fact, some incorrectly generalize the term "deep Q-network" to include any Q-learning implementation that uses a neural network. The main distinction is that deep learning structures contain many hierarchical neural network layers that are constructed into various architectures.

The primary difference here from the model-free version that we built in Chapter 4, Teaching a Smartcab to Drive Using Q-Learning, is that, instead of updating a Q-table with the exact...

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