Reinforcement Learning

Author

Affiliation

Adrian R. Pearce

The University of Melbourne

Introduction

These are the reinforcement learning notes from the Masters subject COMP90054 AI for Autonomy offered within the School of Computing and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne.

Content

The subject relies on material and examples from the textbook Reinforcement Learning, An Introduction\(^1\) by Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto, published by MIT Press. The notes also contain material adapted with permission from David Silver’s Reinforcement Learning Slides\(^2\) and licensed under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 4.0

References

[1] Sutton, Richard S., and Barto, Andrew G. Reinforcement Learning, An Introduction, Second Edition The MIT Press, 2020 (available for download at http://www.incompleteideas.net/book/RLbook2020.pdf)

[2] Silver, David, Lectures on Reinforcement Learning, https://davidstarsilver.wordpress.com/teaching/ 2015