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Special Lecture (Spezialvorlesung) (E)
Reinforcement Learning (Optimierendes Lernen)
Dr. Joschka Bödecker
- Announcements:
- first lecture: 18.10.2016
- Exercises alternating with lectures as announced
- Lectures / Exercises
- Tuesday, 16:00 - 18:00, bldg. 101 - HS 00 036 SCHICK - SAAL
- Wednesday, 16:00 - 18:00, bldg. 101 - HS 00 036 SCHICK - SAAL
- extra lectures will be held on 11/24, 12/1, 12/8 (bldg. 101 - HS 00 036)
- Exam
- Bachelor: oral exams, March 21st, 2017, from 9:30am (30min slots) in room 00010 of bldg. 079.
- Master: written exam, March 20th, 2017, 10:00am, Kinohörsaal in bldg. 082
- Credit points:
- 6 ECTS
- Language:
- English
Overview:
The lecture deals with methods of Reinforcement Learning that constitute an important class of machine learning algorithms. Starting with the formalization of problems as Markov decision processes, a variety of Reinforcement Learning methods are introduced and discussed in-depth. The connection to practice-oriented problems is established throughout the lecture based on many examples.
Exercise Sessions:
- 11/16, 11/29, 12/7, 12/20, 1/17, 1/24, 2/7
Materials:
Materials such as slides, assignments, solutions, and recordings are available via ILIAS: RL Course
Books:
- The first part of the course is based on the book Neuro-Dynamic Programming by Dimitri P. Bertsekas and John Tsitsiklis (especially chapters 2 and 5).
- Another very accessible book is Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (link points to the draft of the 2nd edition, to be published in 2017) by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto
- A short and concise RL book also containing a lot of material from the course is Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning by Csaba Szepesvári