Reinforcement Learning

What Is Reinforcement Learning? Get an overview of reinforcement learning from the perspective of an engineer. Reinforcement learning is a type of machine learning that has the potential to solve some really hard control problems.

Understanding the Environment and Rewards In this video, we build on our basic understanding of reinforcement learning by exploring the workflow. What is the environment? How do reward functions incentivize an agent? How are policies structured?

Policies and Learning Algorithms This video provides an introduction to the algorithms that reside within the agent. We’ll cover why we use neural networks to represent functions and why you may have to set up two neural networks in a powerful family of methods called actor-critic.

The Walking Robot Problem This video shows how to use the reinforcement learning workflow to get a bipedal robot to walk, and how we can set up the RL problem to look more like a traditional control problem by adding a reference signal to the design.

Overcoming the Practical Challenges of Reinforcement Learning There are a few challenges that occur when using reinforcement learning for production systems and there are some ways to mitigate them. This video covers the difficulties of verifying the learned solution and what you can do about it.

An Introduction to Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Learn what multi-agent reinforcement learning is and some of the challenges it faces and overcomes.

Why Choose Model-Based Reinforcement Learning? Compare model-free and model-based reinforcement learning approaches and gain a better understanding of which method to use depending on the situation.