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Reinforcement Learning is a subfield of Machine Learning, but is also a general purpose formalism for automated decision-making and AI. This course introduces you to statistical learning techniques where an agent explicitly takes actions and interacts with the world. Understanding the importance and challenges of learning agents that make decisions is of vital importance today, with more and more companies interested in interactive agents and intelligent decision-making. This course introduces you to the fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning. When you finish this course, you will: - Formalize problems as Markov Decision Processes - Understand basic exploration methods and the exploration/exploitation tradeoff - Understand value functions, as a general-purpose tool for optimal decision-making - Know how to implement dynamic programming as an efficient solution approach to an industrial control problem This course teaches you the key concepts of Reinforcement Learning, underlying classic and modern algorithms in RL. After completing this course, you will be able to start using RL for real problems, where you have or can specify the MDP. This is the first course of the Reinforcement Learning Specialization....

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AT

Jul 6, 2020

An excellent introduction to Reinforcement Learning, accompanied by a well-organized & informative handbook. I definitely recommend this course to have a strong foundation in Reinforcement Learning.

HT

Apr 7, 2020

This course is one of the best I've learned so far in coursera. The explanations are clear and concise enough. It took a while for me to understand Bellman equation but when I did, it felt amazing!

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By Maria D

May 23, 2020

Challenging but helpful, awesome practical tasks!

By Deleted A

Sep 6, 2019

Builds a good foundation of basic concepts of RL.

By Marco G

Jan 7, 2021

clearly explained, nice textbook, good exercises

By Sriram R

Aug 24, 2019

Well organized course. Good pedagogy. Well done!

By Iman R

Aug 26, 2022

The best training course to get started with RL

By Dongyu L

May 20, 2021

Very good and clear introduction of the course.

By Shamuwel A A

Nov 24, 2020

Fantastic beginning to a a very exciting topic.

By Đàm T T

Aug 24, 2020

perfect for who want to getting started with RL

By Debadri B

May 29, 2020

Very good course for understanding basics of RL

By Xiyu Z

Aug 13, 2021

Great! I never learnt it so clearly in school.

By Charles X

Jun 19, 2021

Very good one to get familiar with Q-learning.

By Eduardo F d S

Jul 26, 2020

Good material and very well organized. Thanks!

By Sandro A

Mar 23, 2020

Great introduction to Reinforcement Learning!!

By Kyle W

Feb 16, 2020

I enjoy the programming assignments very much.

By Alejandro D

Aug 11, 2019

Excellent! Great content and delivery quality.

By Kyle A

Aug 15, 2019

great course!! thanks Adam, Martha and team!!

By Alexis O

Apr 24, 2020

Quality course to learn the fundamentals...!

By Raul D M

Nov 13, 2019

One of the best courses I've had on Coursera

By Ronak V

Jan 21, 2023

Very good effort, worth buying the book too

By Ram A

May 1, 2022

Especially loved the hands on assignments!

By Carl

Dec 3, 2020

Solid course for laying foundations for RL

By asphinjohn

Oct 13, 2020

Had a clear idea of Reinforcement learning

By Holakou R

Dec 11, 2019

Fairly comprehensive. Easy/fast to follow.

By Pachi C

Nov 3, 2019

Fantastic course in the fundamentals of RL

By Gösta F

Sep 21, 2021

Nice balance between reading and lectures