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Python Reinforcement Learning Projects

By : Sean Saito, Yang Wenzhuo, Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani
Book Image

Python Reinforcement Learning Projects

By: Sean Saito, Yang Wenzhuo, Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani

Overview of this book

Reinforcement learning is one of the most exciting and rapidly growing fields in machine learning. This is due to the many novel algorithms developed and incredible results published in recent years. In this book, you will learn about the core concepts of RL including Q-learning, policy gradients, Monte Carlo processes, and several deep reinforcement learning algorithms. As you make your way through the book, you'll work on projects with datasets of various modalities including image, text, and video. You will gain experience in several domains, including gaming, image processing, and physical simulations. You'll explore technologies such as TensorFlow and OpenAI Gym to implement deep learning reinforcement learning algorithms that also predict stock prices, generate natural language, and even build other neural networks. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on experience with eight reinforcement learning projects, each addressing different topics and/or algorithms. We hope these practical exercises will provide you with better intuition and insight about the field of reinforcement learning and how to apply its algorithms to various problems in real life.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


This concludes our introductory journey into reinforcement learning. Over the course of this book, we learned how to implement agents that can play Atari games, navigate Minecraft, predict stock market prices, play the complex board game of Go, and even generate other neural networks to train on CIFAR-10 data. In doing so, you acquired and became accustomed to some of the fundamental and state-of-the-art deep learning and reinforcement learning algorithms. In short, you have achieved a lot!

But the journey does not and should not end here. We hope that, with your newfound skills and knowledge, you will continue to utilize deep learning and reinforcement learning algorithms to tackle problems that you face outside of this book. More importantly, we hope that this guide motivates you to explore other fields of machine learning and further develop your knowledge and experience.

There are many obstacles for the reinforcement learning community to overcome. However, there is much to look...