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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

Upcoming developments in reinforcement learning


The past few sections may have painted a stark outlook for deep learning and reinforcement learning. However, there is no need to feel entirely discouraged; this is, in fact, an exciting time for DL and RL, where many significant advances in research are continuing to shape the field and cause it to evolve at a rapid pace. With increasing availability of computational resources and data, the possibilities of expanding and improving deep learning and reinforcement learning algorithms continue to expand.

 

Addressing the limitations

For one, the issues raised in the preceding section are recognized and acknowledged by the research community. There are several efforts being made to address them. In the work by Pattanaik et. al., not only do the authors demonstrate that current deep reinforcement learning algorithms are susceptible to adversarial attacks, they also propose techniques that can make the same algorithms more robust toward such attacks...