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Hands-On Reinforcement Learning with Python

By : Sudharsan Ravichandiran
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Hands-On Reinforcement Learning with Python

By: Sudharsan Ravichandiran

Overview of this book

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is the trending and most promising branch of artificial intelligence. Hands-On Reinforcement learning with Python will help you master not only the basic reinforcement learning algorithms but also the advanced deep reinforcement learning algorithms. The book starts with an introduction to Reinforcement Learning followed by OpenAI Gym, and TensorFlow. You will then explore various RL algorithms and concepts, such as Markov Decision Process, Monte Carlo methods, and dynamic programming, including value and policy iteration. This example-rich guide will introduce you to deep reinforcement learning algorithms, such as Dueling DQN, DRQN, A3C, PPO, and TRPO. You will also learn about imagination-augmented agents, learning from human preference, DQfD, HER, and many more of the recent advancements in reinforcement learning. By the end of the book, you will have all the knowledge and experience needed to implement reinforcement learning and deep reinforcement learning in your projects, and you will be all set to enter the world of artificial intelligence.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Car racing

So far, we have seen how to build a dueling DQN. Now, we will see how to make use of our dueling DQN when playing the car racing game.

First, let's import our necessary libraries:

import gym
import time
import logging
import os
import sys
import tensorflow as tf

Initialize all of the necessary variables:

ENV_NAME = 'Seaquest-v0'
TOTAL_FRAMES = 20000000
MAX_TRAINING_STEPS = 20*60*60/3
TESTING_GAMES = 30
MAX_TESTING_STEPS = 5*60*60/3
TRAIN_AFTER_FRAMES = 50000
epoch_size = 50000
MAX_NOOP_START = 30
LOG_DIR = 'logs'
outdir = 'results'
logger = tf.train.SummaryWriter(LOG_DIR)
# Intialize tensorflow session
session = tf.InteractiveSession()

Build the agent:

agent = DQN(state_size=env.observation_space.shape,
action_size=env.action_space.n,
session=session,
summary_writer = logger,
exploration_period = 1000000,
minibatch_size = 32,
discount_factor = 0...