website/content/research/reinforcementlearning.md

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Title: Reinforcement Learning
Description: The study of optimally mapping situations to actions
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Reinforcement learning is the art of analyzing situations and mapping them to actions in order to maximize a numerical reward signal.

In this independent study, I as well as Dr. Stephen Davies, will explore the Reinforcement Learning problem and its subproblems. We will go over the bandit problem, markov decision processes, and discover how best to translate a problem in order to **make decisions**.

I have provided a list of topics that I wish to explore in a [syllabus](syllabus)

## Readings

In order to spend more time learning, I decided to follow a textbook this time. 

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

By Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto


[Reading Schedule](readings) 


## Notes

The notes for this course, is going to be an extreemly summarized version of the textbook. There will also be notes on whatever side tangents Dr. Davies and I explore.

[Notes page](notes)

I wrote a small little quirky/funny report describing the bandit problem. Great for learning about the common considerations for Reinforcement Learning problems.

[The Bandit Report](/files/research/TheBanditReport.pdf)

## Code

Code will occasionally be written to solidify the learning material and to act as aids for more exploration. 

[Github Link](https://github.com/brandon-rozek/ReinforcementLearning)

Specifically, if you want to see agents I've created to solve some OpenAI environments, take a look at this specific folder in the Github Repository. [Github Link](https://github.com/Brandon-Rozek/ReinforcementLearning/tree/master/agents)