Reinforcement Learning

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Topics and Objectives

• MDP and RL formulation
• Bellman equation and its properties
• Algorithms for solving MDPs
• Function approximation in RL

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Week 12 (Nov 11 and Nov 13)

• Nov 4: [Markov Decision Processes]
• Nov 6: [Contraction Mapping Theorem]

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Week 13 (Nov 18 and Nov 20)

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Homework 6

• Homework 6
• Due Dec 10, 11:59PM CT

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Week 14 Fall Break

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Week 15 (Nov 18 and Nov 20)