About this course: Welcome to the Reinforcement Learning course. Here you will find out about: - foundations of RL methods: value/policy iteration, q-learning, policy gradient, etc. --- with math & batteries included - using deep neural networks for RL tasks --- also known as "the hype train" - state of the art RL algorithms --- and how to apply duct tape to them for practical problems.

About this course: The goal of «Intro to Reinforcement learning» is in its name: introduce students to reinforcement learning – the prominent area of modern research in artificial intelligence. The reinforcement learning differs much from both supervised and unsupervised learning and is more about how humans learn in reality. Students will learn from this course both theoretical core and recent practical RL methods. Most importantly, they will learn how to apply such methods to practical problems. In six weeks students will be guided through the basics of Reinforcement Learning (RL): we will talk about essential theory of RL, value-based methods (such as SARSA and Q-learning), policy based algorithms and methods, designed to solve the optimal exploration problem.