Welcome to the Reinforcement Learning (RL) course! This is a fascinating field of machine learning where agents learn to make decisions by interacting with an environment. Here's a quick overview to get you started:
🔍 Key Concepts
- Agent-Environment Interaction: Agents take actions to maximize cumulative rewards.
- Reward Signals: The core mechanism driving learning behavior.
- Markov Decision Processes (MDPs): Framework for modeling sequential decision problems.
🧠 Popular Algorithms
- Q-Learning: A model-free algorithm for learning optimal actions.
- Deep Q-Networks (DQNs): Combines Q-learning with deep neural networks.
- Policy Gradients: Directly optimizes policies using gradient ascent.
🌍 Real-World Applications
- Robotics: Teaching robots to navigate or manipulate objects.
- Game Theory: AI strategies in games like chess or Go.
- Autonomous Vehicles: Decision-making in dynamic environments.
For deeper exploration, check out our related course on Machine Learning Fundamentals. Happy learning! 🎓