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DQN - Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning - RL Paper Explained

Aleksa Gordić - The AI Epiphany via YouTube

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Dive into a comprehensive 51-minute video lecture exploring the groundbreaking paper that ignited the deep reinforcement learning revolution. Learn about the Deep Q-Network (DQN) algorithm and its application to playing Atari games. Explore key concepts including experience replay buffer, Markov Decision Process formalism, function approximators, and the challenges of reinforcement learning. Follow a detailed algorithm walk-through, understand preprocessing techniques, and examine agent training metrics. Gain insights into the paper's results and the broader implications for the field of artificial intelligence.

Syllabus

High-level overview of the paper
Experience replay buffer
Difficulties with RL correlations, non-stationary distributions
DQN is very general
MDP formalism and optimal Q function
Function approximators
The loss function explained
The deadly triad
Algorithm walk-through
Preprocessing and architecture details
Additional details - normalizing score, schedule, etc.
Agent training metrics
Results

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Aleksa Gordić - The AI Epiphany

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