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Python: Advanced Guide to Artificial Intelligence
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Python: Advanced Guide to Artificial Intelligence

by Giuseppe Bonaccorso, Armando Fandango, Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani
December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
764 pages
18h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Reinforcement learning 101

Reinforcement learning is described by an agent getting inputs of the observation and reward from the previous time-step and producing output as an action with the goal of maximizing cumulative rewards.

The agent has a policy, value function, and model:

  • The algorithm used by the agent to pick the next action is known as the policy. In the previous section, we wrote a policy that would take a set of parameters theta and would return the next action based on the multiplication between the observation and the parameters. The policy is represented by the following equation:  , S is set of states and A is set of actions. ...
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