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Policy gradient methods are a type of Reinforcement Learning optimization methods that works by performing gradient ascent on the parameters of a parameterized policy. This

This is a continuation from Approximate Function Methods in Reinforcement learning Episodic Sarsa with Function Approximation Reminder of what Sarsa is State, Action, Reward, State, Action

Tabular vs Function Methods In reinforcement learning, there are a few methods that are called tabular methods because they track a table of the (input,

Tabular methods Tabular methods refer to problems in which the state and actions spaces are small enough for approximate value functions to be represented as

Temporal Difference learning is one of the most important idea in Reinforcement Learning. We should go over the control aspect of TD to find an

Temporal Difference (TD) learning is the most novel and central idea of reinforcement learning. It combines the advantages from Dynamic Programming and Monte Carlo methods.

In Reinforcement Learning, the Monte Carlo methods are a collection of methods for estimating the value functions and discovering optimal policies thru experience – sampling

In Reinforcement Learning, one way to solve finite MDPs is to use dynamic programming. Policy Evaluation (of the value functions) It refers to the iterative

Finite MDP is the formal problem definition that we try to solve in most of the reinforcement learning problem. Definition Finite MDP is a classical