Welcome to the lecture slides for COM3240 Reinforcement Learning. Click any topic below to view or download the slides (PDF format).
- Introduction to RL.
- Revisiting Probabilities: Dungeons, Dragons and other monsters.
- Differentiation: The Concept of Optimisation, (Partial) Derivatives and (Partial) Differential Equations.
- Reinforcement Learning through the lens of Optimisation; Immediate Rewards.
- Markov Decision Processes and the Bellman Equations.
- TD-Learning.
- Artificial Neural Networks as Function Approximations: Delta rule.
- Artificial Neural Networks as Function Approximations: Backprobagation.
- Revision.