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Friday, December 20, 2024

Policy Gradient
Are tasks really ever continuing? Everything eventually breaks or dies. It’s clear that individual people do not learn from death, but we don’t live forever. Why might the…
Oren Bochman
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Control with Approximation
In this video Adam White discusses the Episodic SARSA algorithm with function approximation. He explains how this algorithm can be used to solve reinforcement learning…
Oren Bochman
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Constructing Features for Prediction
This is not a video lecture or notes for a learning goal. This is however my attempts to cover some material from the readings from chapter 9 of (Sutton and Barto 2018) menti…
Oren Bochman
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Constructing Features for Prediction
We discussed methods for representing large, an possibly continuous state spaces. Ways to construct features. A representation is an agent’s internal encoding of the state…
Oren Bochman
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

On-Policy Prediction with Approximation
Some of the notes I made in this course became a bit too long. Rather than break the flow of the lesson I decided to move them to a separate file. This is one of those notes.
Oren Bochman
Monday, April 1, 2024

On-Policy Prediction with Approximation
I did not find the derivation of the SGD alg particularly enlightening and I have seen it several times. However the online setting is the best motivation for the use of SGD…
Oren Bochman
Monday, April 1, 2024

Sample-based Learning Methods
In these module we define cover model based RL sampling. We start with the Dyna architecture. Then we consider tabular Q-planning algorithm, the Tabular Dyna-Q and Dyna-Q+…
Oren Bochman
Monday, March 4, 2024

Temporal Difference Learning Methods for Control
This week, we will learn to using TD learning for control, as a generalized policy iteration strategy. We will see three different algorithms based on bootstrapping and…
Oren Bochman
Sunday, March 3, 2024

Temporal Difference Learning Methods for Prediction
In these unit we define some key terms like rewards, states, action, value functions, action values functions. Then we consider at the the multi-armed bandit problem leading…
Oren Bochman
Saturday, March 2, 2024

Monte-Carlo Methods for Prediction & Control
In this module we learn about Sample based MC methods that allow learning from sampled episodes. We revise our initial algorithm to better handle exploration. In off policy…
Oren Bochman
Friday, March 1, 2024

Dynamic Programming
In week 4 we learn how to compute value functions and optimal policies, assuming you have the MDP model. You will implement dynamic programming to compute value functions…
Oren Bochman
Thursday, May 5, 2022

Value Functions & Bellman Equations
In week 3 we learn about Value Functions and Bellman Equations, which are the key technology behind all the algorithms we will learn. We learn the definition of policies and…
Oren Bochman
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Markov Decision Processes
In week 2 we learn about Markov Decision Processes (MDP) and how to compute value functions and optimal policies, assuming you have the MDP model. We implement dynamic…
Oren Bochman
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

The K-Armed Bandit Problem
In week 1 we define some key concepts like rewards, states, action, value functions, action values functions. We consider the the multi-armed bandit problem, leading to…
Oren Bochman
Monday, May 2, 2022

Course Introduction
In week 1 we define some key concepts like rewards, states, action, value functions, action values functions. We consider the the multi-armed bandit problem, leading to…
Oren Bochman
Sunday, May 1, 2022
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