180: Reinforcement Learning

180: Reinforcement Learning

March 17, 2025 · 1h 52m · Episode 180

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Patrick and Jason introduce reinforcement learning and discuss its challenges alongside other learning paradigms.

Patrick and Jason introduce reinforcement learning and place it alongside supervised and unsupervised learning. They cover Q-learning, SARSA, policy gradients, actor-critic methods, PPO, imitation learning, and why training and evaluating RL systems is so challenging.

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