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Deep Reinforcement Learning with Python

You're reading from   Deep Reinforcement Learning with Python Master classic RL, deep RL, distributional RL, inverse RL, and more with OpenAI Gym and TensorFlow

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839210686
Length 760 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sudharsan Ravichandiran Sudharsan Ravichandiran
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning 2. A Guide to the Gym Toolkit FREE CHAPTER 3. The Bellman Equation and Dynamic Programming 4. Monte Carlo Methods 5. Understanding Temporal Difference Learning 6. Case Study – The MAB Problem 7. Deep Learning Foundations 8. A Primer on TensorFlow 9. Deep Q Network and Its Variants 10. Policy Gradient Method 11. Actor-Critic Methods – A2C and A3C 12. Learning DDPG, TD3, and SAC 13. TRPO, PPO, and ACKTR Methods 14. Distributional Reinforcement Learning 15. Imitation Learning and Inverse RL 16. Deep Reinforcement Learning with Stable Baselines 17. Reinforcement Learning Frontiers 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index
Appendix 1 – Reinforcement Learning Algorithms 1. Appendix 2 – Assessments

Summary

We started off the chapter by understanding the Bellman equation of the value and Q functions. We learned that, according to the Bellman equation, the value of a state is the sum of the immediate reward, and the discounted value of the next state and the value of a state-action pair is the sum of the immediate reward and the discounted value of the next state-action pair. Then we learned about the optimal Bellman value function and the Q function, which gives the maximum value.

Moving forward, we learned about the relation between the value and Q functions. We learned that the value function can be extracted from the Q function as and then we learned that the Q function can be extracted from the value function as .

Later we learned about two interesting methods called value iteration and policy iteration, which use dynamic programming to find the optimal policy.

In the value iteration method, first, we compute the optimal value function by...

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