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TensorFlow 2 Reinforcement Learning Cookbook

By : Palanisamy P
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TensorFlow 2 Reinforcement Learning Cookbook

By: Palanisamy P

Overview of this book

With deep reinforcement learning, you can build intelligent agents, products, and services that can go beyond computer vision or perception to perform actions. TensorFlow 2.x is the latest major release of the most popular deep learning framework used to develop and train deep neural networks (DNNs). This book contains easy-to-follow recipes for leveraging TensorFlow 2.x to develop artificial intelligence applications. Starting with an introduction to the fundamentals of deep reinforcement learning and TensorFlow 2.x, the book covers OpenAI Gym, model-based RL, model-free RL, and how to develop basic agents. You'll discover how to implement advanced deep reinforcement learning algorithms such as actor-critic, deep deterministic policy gradients, deep-Q networks, proximal policy optimization, and deep recurrent Q-networks for training your RL agents. As you advance, you’ll explore the applications of reinforcement learning by building cryptocurrency trading agents, stock/share trading agents, and intelligent agents for automating task completion. Finally, you'll find out how to deploy deep reinforcement learning agents to the cloud and build cross-platform apps using TensorFlow 2.x. By the end of this TensorFlow book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of deep reinforcement learning algorithms and their implementations from scratch.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Building a stock market trading RL platform using real stock exchange data

The stock market provides anyone with a highly lucrative opportunity to participate and make profits. While it is easily accessible, not all humans can make consistently profitable trades due to the dynamic nature of the market and the emotional aspects that can impair people's actions. RL agents take emotion out of the equation and can be trained to make profits consistently. This recipe will teach you how to implement a stock market trading environment that will teach your RL agents how to trade stocks using real stock market data. When you have trained them enough, you can deploy them so that they automatically make trades (and profits) for you!

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, make sure you have the latest version. You will need to activate the tf2rl-cookbook Python/conda virtual environment. Make sure you update the environment so that it matches the latest conda environment specification...