RL Course by David Silver - Lecture 1: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

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briandw · 2025-06 · Strong recommendation

This papers assumes that you know quite a bit about RL already. If you really want to dig into RL, this intro course from David Silver (Deep Mind) is excellent: [VIDEO]

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colmvp · 2020-04 · Strong recommendation

I almost knew exactly who it was going to be when they mentioned AlphaGo Developer. For those who aren't that well versed in RL, I recommend watching his lectures at UCL ( [VIDEO] ). Really clear explanations that went hand in hand when I was reading Sutton and Barto's introductory book.

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confuseshrink · 2020-07 · Recommendation

I would start with David Silvers (DeepMind) youtube series to get an idea of what's possible or not. Running an already trained reinforcement learning agent is relatively cheap (unless your model is massive). I suspect the reason people aren't using it yet is because it's a) really difficult to get right in training, even basic convergence is not guaranteed without careful tuning b) really difficult to guarantee reasonable behavior outside of the scenarios you're able to reach in QA. edit: Link to lecture series [VIDEO]

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