Grokking Deep Reinforcement Learning

7 Achieving goals more effectively and efficiently

In this chapter

• You will learn about making reinforcement learning agents more effective at reaching optimal performance when interacting with challenging environments.
• You will learn about making reinforcement learning agents more efficient at achieving goals by making the most of the experiences.
• You will improve on the agents presented in the previous chapters to have them make the most out of the data they collect and therefore optimize their performance more quickly.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

— Peter Drucker Founder of modern management and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient

In this chapter, we improve on the agents you learned ...