180: Reinforcement Learning

180: Reinforcement Learning

From Programming Throwdown by Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

March 17, 2025 · 1h 52m · Episode 180

About this episode

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.

People in this episode

Hosts: Patrick Wheeler, Jason Gauci

Topics covered

  • reinforcement learning
  • supervised learning
  • unsupervised learning
  • Q-learning
  • SARSA
  • policy gradients
  • training challenges

Keywords

  • reinforcement learning
  • Q-learning
  • SARSA
  • policy gradients
  • actor-critic methods
  • PPO
  • imitation learning
  • training
  • evaluation

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Reinforcement Learning, Q-learning, SARSA, policy gradients, actor-critic methods, PPO, imitation learning

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