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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning by University of Alberta

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    About the Course

    Reinforcement Learning is a subfield of Machine Learning, but is also a general purpose formalism for automated decision-making and AI. This
    course introduces you to statistical learning techniques where an agent explicitly takes actions and interacts with the world. Understanding the
    importance and challenges of learning agents that make decisions is of vital importance today, with more and more companies interested in
    interactive agents and intelligent decision-making. This course introduces you to the fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning. When you
    finish this course, you will: - Formalize problems as Markov Decision Processes - Understand basic exploration methods and t...
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    MN

    Apr 11, 2024

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    The concepts may sound confusing in the beginning, but as you go forward you find it interesting and understanding. I suggest you completely read the reading assignments before watching the videos.

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    Sep 1, 2019

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    All the concepts were well explained and this course was perhaps the best I have found for RL.Great efforts have been put into making the course and It goes well in line with the suggested textbook.

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    May 1, 2022

    Especially loved the hands on assignments!

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    Dec 3, 2020

    Solid course for laying foundations for RL

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    Oct 13, 2020

    Had a clear idea of Reinforcement learning

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    Dec 11, 2019

    Fairly comprehensive. Easy/fast to follow.

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    Nov 3, 2019

    Fantastic course in the fundamentals of RL

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    Sep 21, 2021

    Nice balance between reading and lectures

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    Jun 27, 2021

    Fantastic Course! Thanks Martha and Adam!

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    Oct 21, 2020

    Get a lot useful knowledge, thanks a lot!

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    Nov 8, 2019

    Really good course, and not for beginner.

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    Mar 3, 2025

    Really love the course and the textbook!

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    Dec 6, 2024

    Excellent content, teachers, motivation.

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    Jan 1, 2021

    Makes Sutton and Bartos book great again

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    Sep 10, 2019

    Really nice and clear course, love it :)

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    Aug 16, 2020

    Requires medium/high programming skills

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    Jul 26, 2020

    Great course, instructors are too good!

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    May 26, 2020

    Very Nice and Fundamental course in MDP

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    Feb 20, 2023

    A detailed course on the fundamentals.

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    Nov 7, 2019

    an excellent introductory course to RL

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    Jun 15, 2020

    Great course to learn RL fundamentals

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    Apr 22, 2020

    Very good introduction to this field!

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    Apr 11, 2020

    Very useful and well explained course

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    Jul 10, 2023

    Excellent course and reference book.

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    Oct 2, 2020

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    Apr 5, 2020

    Very well explained, learned a lot.

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