What is Q-Learning (back to basics)

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What is Q-Learning and how does it work? A brief tour through the background of Q-Learning, Markov Decision Processes, Deep Q-Networks, and other basics necessary to understand Q* ;)

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
2:00 - Reinforcement Learning
7:00 - Q-Functions
19:00 - The Bellman Equation
26:00 - How to learn the Q-Function?
38:00 - Deep Q-Learning
42:30 - Summary

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1312.5602
My old video on DQN:    • [Classic] Playing Atari with Deep Reinforc...  

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