Deep renforcement learning et applications

ECTS : 3

Description du contenu de l'enseignement :

What you will learn in this class?

• Intro and Course Overview
• Supervised Learning   behaviors
• Principles of Reinforcement  Learning
• Policy Gradients
• Actor-Critic Algorithms (A2C, A3C and Soft AC)
• Value Function Methods
• Deep RL with Q-functions
• Advanced Policy Gradient (DDPG, Twin Delayed DDPG)
• Trust Region & Proximal Policy Optimization (TRPO, PPO)
• Optimal Control and Planning
• Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
• Model-Based Policy Learning
• Exploration and Stochastic Bandit in RL
• Exploration with Curiosity and Imagination
• Offline RL and Generalization issues
• Offline RL and Policy constraints

• DRL Is a very promising type of learning as it does not need to know the solution
• DRL Only needs the rules and good rewards
• DRL Combines the best aspects of deep learning and reinforcement learning. 
• DRL has achieved impressive results in games, robotic,  finance and many more fields

• Bertsekas, Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control,   Vols I and II
• Goodfellow, Bengio, Deep Learning
• Powell, Approximate Dynamic Programming
• Puterman, Markov Decision Processes: Discrete   Stochastic Dynamic Programming
• Sutton & Barto, Reinforcement Learning: An   Introduction
• Szepesvari, Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning

Compétence à acquérir :

What you will acquire in this class?

• Understand principles of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)
• Know main DRL algorithms
• Get some intuition about what DRL is good and not good at?
• Program DRL algorithms