Reinforcement Learning - Principles, Concepts and Applications

Reinforcement Learning - Principles, Concepts and Applications
Author: Bhavatarini N
Publisher: MileStone Research Publications
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2024-03-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9360130087

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a subfield of machine learning that deals with how an agent should learn to take actions in an environment to maximize some notion of cumulative reward. In other words, reinforcement learning is a learning paradigm where an agent learns to interact with an environment by taking actions and observing the feedback it receives in the form of rewards or penalties. It is a feedback-based Machine learning technique in which an agent learns to behave in an environment by performing the actions and seeing the results of actions. For each good action, the agent gets positive feedback, and for each bad action, the agent gets negative feedback or penalty.

AI Crash Course

AI Crash Course
Author: Hadelin de Ponteves
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2019-11-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1838645551

Unlock the power of artificial intelligence with top Udemy AI instructor Hadelin de Ponteves. Key FeaturesLearn from friendly, plain English explanations and practical activitiesPut ideas into action with 5 hands-on projects that show step-by-step how to build intelligent softwareUse AI to win classic video games and construct a virtual self-driving carBook Description Welcome to the Robot World ... and start building intelligent software now! Through his best-selling video courses, Hadelin de Ponteves has taught hundreds of thousands of people to write AI software. Now, for the first time, his hands-on, energetic approach is available as a book. Starting with the basics before easing you into more complicated formulas and notation, AI Crash Course gives you everything you need to build AI systems with reinforcement learning and deep learning. Five full working projects put the ideas into action, showing step-by-step how to build intelligent software using the best and easiest tools for AI programming, including Python, TensorFlow, Keras, and PyTorch. AI Crash Course teaches everyone to build an AI to work in their applications. Once you've read this book, you're only limited by your imagination. What you will learnMaster the basics of AI without any previous experienceBuild fun projects, including a virtual-self-driving car and a robot warehouse workerUse AI to solve real-world business problemsLearn how to code in PythonDiscover the 5 principles of reinforcement learningCreate your own AI toolkitWho this book is for If you want to add AI to your skillset, this book is for you. It doesn't require data science or machine learning knowledge. Just maths basics (high school level).

Reinforcement Learning, second edition

Reinforcement Learning, second edition
Author: Richard S. Sutton
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2018-11-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0262352702

The significantly expanded and updated new edition of a widely used text on reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence. Reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence, is a computational approach to learning whereby an agent tries to maximize the total amount of reward it receives while interacting with a complex, uncertain environment. In Reinforcement Learning, Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto provide a clear and simple account of the field's key ideas and algorithms. This second edition has been significantly expanded and updated, presenting new topics and updating coverage of other topics. Like the first edition, this second edition focuses on core online learning algorithms, with the more mathematical material set off in shaded boxes. Part I covers as much of reinforcement learning as possible without going beyond the tabular case for which exact solutions can be found. Many algorithms presented in this part are new to the second edition, including UCB, Expected Sarsa, and Double Learning. Part II extends these ideas to function approximation, with new sections on such topics as artificial neural networks and the Fourier basis, and offers expanded treatment of off-policy learning and policy-gradient methods. Part III has new chapters on reinforcement learning's relationships to psychology and neuroscience, as well as an updated case-studies chapter including AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero, Atari game playing, and IBM Watson's wagering strategy. The final chapter discusses the future societal impacts of reinforcement learning.

Reinforcement Learning Algorithms: Analysis and Applications

Reinforcement Learning Algorithms: Analysis and Applications
Author: Boris Belousov
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2021-01-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030411885

This book reviews research developments in diverse areas of reinforcement learning such as model-free actor-critic methods, model-based learning and control, information geometry of policy searches, reward design, and exploration in biology and the behavioral sciences. Special emphasis is placed on advanced ideas, algorithms, methods, and applications. The contributed papers gathered here grew out of a lecture course on reinforcement learning held by Prof. Jan Peters in the winter semester 2018/2019 at Technische Universität Darmstadt. The book is intended for reinforcement learning students and researchers with a firm grasp of linear algebra, statistics, and optimization. Nevertheless, all key concepts are introduced in each chapter, making the content self-contained and accessible to a broader audience.

Understanding Machine Learning

Understanding Machine Learning
Author: Shai Shalev-Shwartz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2014-05-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1107057132

Introduces machine learning and its algorithmic paradigms, explaining the principles behind automated learning approaches and the considerations underlying their usage.

Deep Learning in Gaming and Animations

Deep Learning in Gaming and Animations
Author: Vikas Chaudhary
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1000504344

Over the last decade, progress in deep learning has had a profound and transformational effect on many complex problems, including speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision. As a result, computers can now achieve human-competitive performance in a wide range of perception and recognition tasks. Many of these systems are now available to the programmer via a range of so-called cognitive services. More recently, deep reinforcement learning has achieved ground-breaking success in several complex challenges. This book makes an enormous contribution to this beautiful, vibrant area of study: an area that is developing rapidly both in breadth and depth. Deep learning can cope with a broader range of tasks (and perform those tasks to increasing levels of excellence). This book lays a good foundation for the core concepts and principles of deep learning in gaming and animation, walking you through the fundamental ideas with expert ease. This book progresses in a step-by-step manner. It reinforces theory with a full-fledged pedagogy designed to enhance students' understanding and offer them a practical insight into its applications. Also, some chapters introduce and cover novel ideas about how artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning, and machine learning have changed the world in gaming and animation. It gives us the idea that AI can also be applied in gaming, and there are limited textbooks in this area. This book comprehensively addresses all the aspects of AI and deep learning in gaming. Also, each chapter follows a similar structure so that students, teachers, and industry experts can orientate themselves within the text. There are few books in the field of gaming using AI. Deep Learning in Gaming and Animations teaches you how to apply the power of deep learning to build complex reasoning tasks. After being exposed to the foundations of machine and deep learning, you will use Python to build a bot and then teach it the game's rules. This book also focuses on how different technologies have revolutionized gaming and animation with various illustrations.

Deep Reinforcement Learning in Action

Deep Reinforcement Learning in Action
Author: Alexander Zai
Publisher: Manning Publications
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1617295434

Summary Humans learn best from feedback—we are encouraged to take actions that lead to positive results while deterred by decisions with negative consequences. This reinforcement process can be applied to computer programs allowing them to solve more complex problems that classical programming cannot. Deep Reinforcement Learning in Action teaches you the fundamental concepts and terminology of deep reinforcement learning, along with the practical skills and techniques you’ll need to implement it into your own projects. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology Deep reinforcement learning AI systems rapidly adapt to new environments, a vast improvement over standard neural networks. A DRL agent learns like people do, taking in raw data such as sensor input and refining its responses and predictions through trial and error. About the book Deep Reinforcement Learning in Action teaches you how to program AI agents that adapt and improve based on direct feedback from their environment. In this example-rich tutorial, you’ll master foundational and advanced DRL techniques by taking on interesting challenges like navigating a maze and playing video games. Along the way, you’ll work with core algorithms, including deep Q-networks and policy gradients, along with industry-standard tools like PyTorch and OpenAI Gym. What's inside Building and training DRL networks The most popular DRL algorithms for learning and problem solving Evolutionary algorithms for curiosity and multi-agent learning All examples available as Jupyter Notebooks About the reader For readers with intermediate skills in Python and deep learning. About the author Alexander Zai is a machine learning engineer at Amazon AI. Brandon Brown is a machine learning and data analysis blogger. Table of Contents PART 1 - FOUNDATIONS 1. What is reinforcement learning? 2. Modeling reinforcement learning problems: Markov decision processes 3. Predicting the best states and actions: Deep Q-networks 4. Learning to pick the best policy: Policy gradient methods 5. Tackling more complex problems with actor-critic methods PART 2 - ABOVE AND BEYOND 6. Alternative optimization methods: Evolutionary algorithms 7. Distributional DQN: Getting the full story 8.Curiosity-driven exploration 9. Multi-agent reinforcement learning 10. Interpretable reinforcement learning: Attention and relational models 11. In conclusion: A review and roadmap

Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning

Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning
Author: Rafael Ris-Ala
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2023-08-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3031373456

Artificial intelligence (AI) applications bring agility and modernity to our lives, and the reinforcement learning technique is at the forefront of this technology. It can outperform human competitors in strategy games, creative compositing, and autonomous movement. Moreover, it is just starting to transform our civilization. This book provides an introduction to AI, specifies machine learning techniques, and explores various aspects of reinforcement learning, approaching the latest concepts in a didactic and illustrated manner. It is aimed at students who want to be part of technological advances and professors engaged in the development of innovative applications, helping with academic and industrial challenges. Understanding the Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning will allow you to: Understand essential AI concepts Gain professional experience Interpret sequential decision problems and solve them with reinforcement learning Learn how the Q-Learning algorithm works Practice with commented Python code Find advantageous directions

The Art of Reinforcement Learning

The Art of Reinforcement Learning
Author: Michael Hu
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-08-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781484296059

Unlock the full potential of reinforcement learning (RL), a crucial subfield of Artificial Intelligence, with this comprehensive guide. This book provides a deep dive into RL's core concepts, mathematics, and practical algorithms, helping you to develop a thorough understanding of this cutting-edge technology. Beginning with an overview of fundamental concepts such as Markov decision processes, dynamic programming, Monte Carlo methods, and temporal difference learning, this book uses clear and concise examples to explain the basics of RL theory. The following section covers value function approximation, a critical technique in RL, and explores various policy approximations such as policy gradient methods and advanced algorithms like Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO). This book also delves into advanced topics, including distributed reinforcement learning, curiosity-driven exploration, and the famous AlphaZero algorithm, providing readers with a detailed account of these cutting-edge techniques. With a focus on explaining algorithms and the intuition behind them, The Art of Reinforcement Learning includes practical source code examples that you can use to implement RL algorithms. Upon completing this book, you will have a deep understanding of the concepts, mathematics, and algorithms behind reinforcement learning, making it an essential resource for AI practitioners, researchers, and students. What You Will Learn Grasp fundamental concepts and distinguishing features of reinforcement learning, including how it differs from other AI and non-interactive machine learning approaches Model problems as Markov decision processes, and how to evaluate and optimize policies using dynamic programming, Monte Carlo methods, and temporal difference learning Utilize techniques for approximating value functions and policies, including linear and nonlinear value function approximation and policy gradient methods Understand the architecture and advantages of distributed reinforcement learning Master the concept of curiosity-driven exploration and how it can be leveraged to improve reinforcement learning agents Explore the AlphaZero algorithm and how it was able to beat professional Go players Who This Book Is For Machine learning engineers, data scientists, software engineers, and developers who want to incorporate reinforcement learning algorithms into their projects and applications.

Mastering Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Mastering Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Author: Nikhilesh Mishra
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-08-25
Genre:
ISBN:

Embark on an illuminating journey through the captivating realm of "Mastering Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications" From foundational principles to cutting-edge applications, this comprehensive book equips you with the knowledge and insights to harness the transformative power of AI and ML. Uncover the core principles of AI and ML, from algorithms to predictive modeling. Dive deep into neural networks, deep learning, and natural language processing. Explore real-world applications in healthcare, finance, and more. Discover the ethical dimensions of AI's impact on society. Enhance your growth potential with an exclusive section dedicated to interviews and interviewers, providing valuable insights and skills that amplify your journey towards success. Whether you're a tech enthusiast or a seasoned professional, "Mastering Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications" empowers you to transform your understanding and become a visionary in shaping the future of technology. Don't miss out-get your copy today and embark on a journey of innovation and knowledge!