Deep Reinforcement Learning

CS224R

Stanford School of Engineering

Humans, animals, and robots faced with the world must make decisions and take actions in the world. Moreover, the decisions they choose affect the world they exist in - and those outcomes must be taken into account. This course is about algorithms for deep reinforcement learning - methods for learning behavior from experience, with a focus on practical algorithms that use deep neural networks to learn behavior from high-dimensional observations.

Topics Include

  • Methods for learning from demonstrations
  • Both model-based and model-free deep RL methods
  • Methods for learning from offline datasets and more advanced techniques for learning multiple tasks such as goal-conditioned RL, meta-RL, and unsupervised skill discovery

What You Need to Succeed

  • A conferred bachelor’s degree with an undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or better

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