Course Information
Course Overview
Build Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents using Deep Reinforcement Learning and PyTorch: A2C, REINFORCE, DQN, etc.
This is the most complete Reinforcement Learning course on Udemy. In it you will learn the basics of Reinforcement Learning, one of the three paradigms of modern artificial intelligence. You will implement from scratch adaptive algorithms that solve control tasks based on experience. You will also learn to combine these algorithms with Deep Learning techniques and neural networks, giving rise to the branch known as Deep Reinforcement Learning.
This course will give you the foundation you need to be able to understand new algorithms as they emerge. It will also prepare you for the next courses in this series, in which we will go much deeper into different branches of Reinforcement Learning and look at some of the more advanced algorithms that exist.
The course is focused on developing practical skills. Therefore, after learning the most important concepts of each family of methods, we will implement one or more of their algorithms in jupyter notebooks, from scratch.
This course is divided into three parts and covers the following topics:
Part 1 (Tabular methods):
- Markov decision process
- Dynamic programming
- Monte Carlo methods
- Time difference methods (SARSA, Q-Learning)
- N-step bootstrapping
Part 2 (Continuous state spaces):
- State aggregation
- Tile Coding
Part 3 (Deep Reinforcement Learning):
- Deep SARSA
- Deep Q-Learning
- REINFORCE
- Advantage Actor-Critic / A2C (Advantage Actor-Critic / A2C method)
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 134 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Welcome module
- Section 2 The Markov decision process (MDP)
- Section 3 Dynamic Programming
- Section 4 Monte Carlo methods
- Section 5 Temporal difference methods
- Section 6 N-step bootstrapping
- Section 7 Continuous state spaces
- Section 8 Brief introduction to neural networks
- Section 9 Deep SARSA
- Section 10 Deep Q-Learning
What You’ll Learn
- Understand the Reinforcement Learning paradigm and the tasks that it's best suited to solve.
- Understand the process of solving a cognitive task using Reinforcement Learning
- Understand the different approaches to solving a task using Reinforcement Learning and choose the most fitting
- Implement Reinforcement Learning algorithms completely from scratch
- Fundamentally understand the learning process for each algorithm
- Debug and extend the algorithms presented
- Understand and implement new algorithms from research papers
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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PPhilipp Maluta
I enjoyed the course, but unfortunately I already almost forgot math expression language, so this part rather lost me then explain me stuff.
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TT O
This is a very nice course to get you started on this topic. I personally didn't know anything about dynamic programming and I had to find other sources to get me up to speed with this topic in order to be able to follow it until the end. Same thing with neural networks. However, it was an excellent starting point!
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CCosmas Mwaba
An awesome and well-curated course for anyone new to reinforcement learning.
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GGabriele De Gaetani
It is unacceptable that in a course where slides are used, these are not also provided to students, thereby improving their learning experience. To make matters worse, the professor explains difficult concepts too quickly and without emphasis. I strongly advise against purchasing this course... unfortunately.