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Reinforcement Learning Algorithms with Python

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789131116
Pages 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrea Lonza Andrea Lonza
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Andrea Lonza is a deep learning engineer with a great passion for artificial intelligence and a desire to create machines that act intelligently. He has acquired expert knowledge in reinforcement learning, natural language processing, and computer vision through academic and industrial machine learning projects. He has also participated in several Kaggle competitions, achieving high results. He is always looking for compelling challenges and loves to prove himself.
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Algorithms and Environments
2. The Landscape of Reinforcement Learning 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

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  1. How can a policy neural network control a continuous agent?
  2. What's the KL divergence?
  3. What's the main idea behind TRPO?
  4. How is the KL divergence used in TRPO?
  5. What's the main benefit of PPO?
  6. How does PPO achieve good sample efficiency?
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Profile icon Andrea Lonza
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Andrea Lonza is a deep learning engineer with a great passion for artificial intelligence and a desire to create machines that act intelligently. He has acquired expert knowledge in reinforcement learning, natural language processing, and computer vision through academic and industrial machine learning projects. He has also participated in several Kaggle competitions, achieving high results. He is always looking for compelling challenges and loves to prove himself.
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