An open course on reinforcement learning in the wild. Taught on-campus at HSE and YSDA and maintained to be friendly to online students (both english and russian).
Note: this branch is an on-campus version of the for spring 2019 YSDA and HSE students. For full course materials, switch to the master branch.
- Optimize for the curious. For all the materials that aren’t covered in detail there are links to more information and related materials (D.Silver/Sutton/blogs/whatever). Assignments will have bonus sections if you want to dig deeper.
- Practicality first. Everything essential to solving reinforcement learning problems is worth mentioning. We won't shun away from covering tricks and heuristics. For every major idea there should be a lab that makes you to “feel” it on a practical problem.
- Git-course. Know a way to make the course better? Noticed a typo in a formula? Found a useful link? Made the code more readable? Made a version for alternative framework? You're awesome! Pull-request it!
- Lecture slides are here.
- Telegram chat room for YSDA & HSE students is here
- Grading rules for YSDA & HSE students is here
- Online student survival guide
- Installing the libraries - guide and issues thread
- Anonymous feedback form for everything that didn't go through e-mail.
- About the course
The syllabus is approximate: the lectures may occur in a slightly different order and some topics may end up taking two weeks.
- week01_intro Introduction
- Lecture: RL problems around us. Decision processes. Stochastic optimization, Crossentropy method. Parameter space search vs action space search.
- Seminar: Welcome into openai gym. Tabular CEM for Taxi-v0, deep CEM for box2d environments.
- Homework description - see week1/README.md.
- HSE Deadline: TBA
- YSDA Deadline: TBA
Course materials and teaching by: [unordered]
- Pavel Shvechikov - lectures, seminars, hw checkups, reading group
- Nikita Putintsev - seminars, hw checkups, organizing our hot mess
- Alexander Fritsler - lectures, seminars, hw checkups
- Oleg Vasilev - seminars, hw checkups, technical support
- Dmitry Nikulin - tons of fixes, far and wide
- Mikhail Konobeev - seminars, hw checkups
- Ivan Kharitonov - seminars, hw checkups
- Ravil Khasanov - seminars, hw checkups
- Fedor Ratnikov - admin stuff
- Using pictures from Berkeley AI course
- Massively refering to CS294
- Several tensorflow assignments by Scitator
- A lot of fixes from arogozhnikov
- Other awesome people: see github contributors
- Alexey Umnov helped us a lot during spring2018