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Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On - Second Edition

By : Maxim Lapan
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Book Image

Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On - Second Edition

5 (2)
By: Maxim Lapan

Overview of this book

Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On, Second Edition is an updated and expanded version of the bestselling guide to the very latest reinforcement learning (RL) tools and techniques. It provides you with an introduction to the fundamentals of RL, along with the hands-on ability to code intelligent learning agents to perform a range of practical tasks. With six new chapters devoted to a variety of up-to-the-minute developments in RL, including discrete optimization (solving the Rubik's Cube), multi-agent methods, Microsoft's TextWorld environment, advanced exploration techniques, and more, you will come away from this book with a deep understanding of the latest innovations in this emerging field. In addition, you will gain actionable insights into such topic areas as deep Q-networks, policy gradient methods, continuous control problems, and highly scalable, non-gradient methods. You will also discover how to build a real hardware robot trained with RL for less than $100 and solve the Pong environment in just 30 minutes of training using step-by-step code optimization. In short, Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On, Second Edition, is your companion to navigating the exciting complexities of RL as it helps you attain experience and knowledge through real-world examples.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
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Index

Dataset exploration

It's always a good idea to look at your dataset from various angles, like counting statistics, plotting various characteristics of data, or just eyeballing your data to get a better understanding of your problem and potential issues. The tool cor_reader.py supports the minimalistic functionality for data analysis. By running it with the --show-genres option, you will get all genres from the dataset with a number of movies in each, sorted by the count of movies in order of decreasing size. The top 10 of them are shown as follows:

$ ./cor_reader.py --show-genres
Genres:
drama: 320
thriller: 269
action: 168
comedy: 162
crime: 147
romance: 132
sci-fi: 120
adventure: 116
mystery: 102
horror: 99

The --show-dials option displays dialogues from the movies without any preprocessing, in the order they appear in the database. The number of dialogues is large, so it's worth passing the -g option to filter by genre...