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Barto second edition see here for the first edition mit press, cambridge, ma, 2018. In recent years deep reinforcement learning rl systems have attained superhuman performance in a number of challenging task domains. If an action is followed by an increase in the reward, then the system increases the tendency to produce that action. The aim is to provide an intuitive presentation of the ideas rather than concentrate on the deeper mathematics underlying the topic. Nearoptimal reinforcement learning in polynomial time satinder singh and michael kearns.
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