• Title: A Course in Reinforcement Learning
• Author(s) Dimitri P. Bertsekas
• Publisher: Athena Scientific (November 15, 2023); eBook (2nd Edition, 2025)
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• eBook: PDF (482 pages)
• Language: English
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Book Description

The purpose of the book is to give an overview of the Reinforcement Learning (RL) methodology, with a particular focus on problems of optimal and suboptimal control, as well as discrete optimization.

• Dimitri P. Bertsekas is an applied mathematician, electrical engineer, and computer scientist, and a professor at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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• Neural Networks and Depp Learning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Statistics, Mathematical Statistics, and SAS Programming
• Probability and Stochastic Processe

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