Understanding Reinforcement Learning Basics
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is an area of ML where agents learn by interacting with an
environment, taking actions, and receiving rewards.
### Core Concepts:
1. **Agent**: The learner or decision-maker.
2. **Environment**: The world the agent interacts with.
3. **Reward Signal**: Feedback the agent receives for its actions.
4. **Policy**: A strategy the agent uses to decide actions.
### RL Algorithms:
1. **Q-Learning**: A value-based method for learning the quality of actions.
2. **Deep Q-Networks (DQN)**: Combining Q-learning with deep neural networks.
3. **Policy Gradient Methods**: Directly optimizing the policy.
### Applications:
- Gaming: AlphaGo beating world champions.
- Robotics: Teaching robots to walk or manipulate objects.
- Autonomous Vehicles: Decision-making in complex traffic scenarios.
### Tools:
- OpenAI Gym, Stable Baselines3, PyTorch.