Fundamentals of Deep Reinforcement Learning

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Course Features

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Duration

8 weeks

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Beginner

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Effort

6 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

This course starts from the very beginnings of Reinforcement Learning and works its way up to a complete understanding of Q-learning, one of the core reinforcement learning algorithms.

In part II of this course, you'll use neural networks to implement Q-learning to produce powerful and effective learning agents (neural nets are the "Deep" in "Deep Reinforcement Learning").

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Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

Proficiency with Python

Functions, classes, objects, loops

Basic familiarity with Jupyter notebooks

Basic probability

Sampling from a normal distributon Conditional probability notation \mathbb{E}E - expectation \SigmaΣ - the summation operator

What You Will Learn

The theoretical underpinnings of Reinforcement Learning ("RL").

How to implement each piece of theory to solve real problems in Python.

The core RL formula: The Bellman Equation

The Q-Learning algorithm, as well as many powerful improvements.

Enough to prepare you for implement Reinforcement Learning algorithms using Deep Neural Networks.

Course Instructors

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Shalev NessAiver

Instructor at Learn Ventures, Inc

Shalev started programming with Logo and turtles 25 years ago and has been coding ever since. He loves learning new languages as new paradigms of thinking, and has been teaching programming in many contexts for 15 years.
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Xander Steenbrugge

Instructor at Learn Ventures, Inc

Civil engineer, passionate Machine Learning researcher, ML consultant, public speaker and YouTuber at 'Arxiv Insights'. I discovered ML through my masters thesis on brain-computer interfaces focussed...
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Frank Washburn

Instructor at Learn Ventures, Inc

Frank Washburn's career has been a multifaceted one. In research, Frank has both worked on cancer proteomic research at the National Institute of Health and tracked endangered monk seals for the Nati...
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