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8 Free Sources on Reinforcement Learning

With the phenomenon of DeepSeek-R1's top reasoning capabilities, we all saw the true power of RL. At its core, RL is a type of machine learning where a model/agent learns to make decisions by interacting with an environment to maximize a reward. RL learns through trial and error, receiving feedback in the form of rewards or penalties.

Here's a list of free sources that will help you dive into RL and how to use it:

1. "Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction" book by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto -> https://web.stanford.edu/class/psych209/Readings/SuttonBartoIPRLBook2ndEd.pdf

2. Hugging Face Deep Reinforcement Learning Course -> https://huggingface.co/learn/deep-rl-course/unit0/introduction
You'll learn how to train agents in unique environments, using best libraries, share your results, compete in challenges, and earn a certificate.

3. OpenAI Spinning Up in Deep RL -> https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/index.html
A comprehensive overview of RL with many useful resources

4. "Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control" books, video lectures and course material by Dimitri P. Bertsekas from ASU -> https://web.mit.edu/dimitrib/www/RLbook.html
Explores approximate Dynamic Programming (DP) and RL with key concepts and methods like rollout, tree search, and neural network training for RL and more.

5. RL Course by David Silver (Google DeepMind) -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0&list=PLqYmG7hTraZDM-OYHWgPeb
Many recommend these video lectures as a good foundation

6. RL theory seminars -> https://sites.google.com/view/rltheoryseminars/home?authuser=0
Provides virtual seminars from different experts about RL advancements

7. "Reinforcement Learning Specialization" (a 4-course series on Coursera) -> https://www.coursera.org/learn/fundament

8. Concepts: RLHF, RLAIF, RLEF, RLCF -> https://www.turingpost.com/p/rl-f
Our flashcards easily explain what are these four RL approaches with different feedback
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