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Hands-On Reinforcement Learning for Games

By : Micheal Lanham
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Hands-On Reinforcement Learning for Games

By: Micheal Lanham

Overview of this book

With the increased presence of AI in the gaming industry, developers are challenged to create highly responsive and adaptive games by integrating artificial intelligence into their projects. This book is your guide to learning how various reinforcement learning techniques and algorithms play an important role in game development with Python. Starting with the basics, this book will help you build a strong foundation in reinforcement learning for game development. Each chapter will assist you in implementing different reinforcement learning techniques, such as Markov decision processes (MDPs), Q-learning, actor-critic methods, SARSA, and deterministic policy gradient algorithms, to build logical self-learning agents. Learning these techniques will enhance your game development skills and add a variety of features to improve your game agent’s productivity. As you advance, you’ll understand how deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques can be used to devise strategies to help agents learn from their actions and build engaging games. By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to apply reinforcement learning techniques to build a variety of projects and contribute to open source applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Exploring the Environment
7
Section 2: Exploiting the Knowledge
15
Section 3: Reward Yourself

Preface

This book is your one-stop shop for learning how various reinforcement learning (RL) techniques and algorithms play an important role in game development using Python.

The book will start with the basics to provide you with the necessary foundation to understand how RL is playing a major role in game development. Each chapter will help you implement various RL techniques, such as Markov decision processes, Q-learning, the actor-critic method, state-action-reward-state-action (SARSA), and the deterministic policy gradients algorithm, to build logical self-learning agents. You will use these techniques to enhance your game development skills and add various features to improve your overall productivity. Later in the book, you will learn how deep RL techniques can be used to devise strategies that enable agents to learn from their own actions so that you can build fun and engaging games.

By the end of the book, you will be able to use RL techniques to build various projects and contribute to open source applications.