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Hands-On Q-Learning with Python

You're reading from Hands-On Q-Learning with Python Practical Q-learning with OpenAI Gym, Keras, and TensorFlow

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789345803

Length 212 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Keras

Concepts

Machine Learning

Author (1):

Nazia Habib

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Q-Learning: A Roadmap FREE CHAPTER

2. Brushing Up on Reinforcement Learning Concepts

3. Getting Started with the Q-Learning Algorithm

4. Setting Up Your First Environment with OpenAI Gym

5. Teaching a Smartcab to Drive Using Q-Learning

6. Section 2: Building and Optimizing Q-Learning Agents

7. Building Q-Networks with TensorFlow

8. Digging Deeper into Deep Q-Networks with Keras and TensorFlow

9. Section 3: Advanced Q-Learning Challenges with Keras, TensorFlow, and OpenAI Gym

10. Decoupling Exploration and Exploitation in Multi-Armed Bandits

11. Further Q-Learning Research and Future Projects

12. Assessments

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Questions

What is the difference between a reward and a value?
What is a hyperparameter? Give an example of a hyperparameter other than the ones discussed in this chapter.
Why will a Q-learning agent not choose the highest Q-valued action for its current state?
Explain one benefit of a decaying gamma.
Describe in one or two sentences the difference between the decision-making strategies of SARSA and Q-learning.
What kind of policy does Q-learning implicitly assume the agent is following?
Under what circumstances will SARSA and Q-learning produce the same results?

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Authors (1)

Nazia Habib

Nazia Habib

Nazia Habib is a data scientist who has worked in a variety of industries to generate predictive analytics solutions for diverse groups of stakeholders. She is an expert in building solutions to optimization problems under conditions of uncertainty. Her projects range from predicting user behavior and engagement with social media apps to designing adaptive testing software. Her ongoing specialization is in designing custom reinforcement learning algorithms for modeling control problems with limited inputs that converge to optimal solutions.

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