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Python Reinforcement Learning Projects
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Python Reinforcement Learning Projects

by Sean Saito, Yang Wenzhuo, Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
9h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Demonstrating basic Q-learning algorithm

To demonstrate the basic Q-learning algorithm, let's consider a simple problem. Imagine that our agent (player) lives in a grid world. One day, she was trapped in a weird maze, as shown in the following diagram:

The maze contains six rooms. Our agent appears in Room 1, while she has no knowledge about the maze, that is, she doesn't know Room 6 has the sweetheart that is able to send her back home, or that Room 4 has a lightning bolt that strikes her. Therefore, she has to explore the maze carefully to escape as soon as possible. So, how do we  make our lovely agent learn from experience?

Fortunately, ...

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