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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning by University of Alberta

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    About the Course

    Reinforcement Learning is a subfield of Machine Learning, but is also a general purpose formalism for automated decision-making and AI. This
    course introduces you to statistical learning techniques where an agent explicitly takes actions and interacts with the world. Understanding the
    importance and challenges of learning agents that make decisions is of vital importance today, with more and more companies interested in
    interactive agents and intelligent decision-making. This course introduces you to the fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning. When you
    finish this course, you will: - Formalize problems as Markov Decision Processes - Understand basic exploration methods and t...
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    MN

    Apr 12, 2024

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    The concepts may sound confusing in the beginning, but as you go forward you find it interesting and understanding. I suggest you completely read the reading assignments before watching the videos.

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    Sep 2, 2019

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    All the concepts were well explained and this course was perhaps the best I have found for RL.Great efforts have been put into making the course and It goes well in line with the suggested textbook.

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    Aug 28, 2020

    Really exceptionally clear - I had to battle through some of the math, but it was worth it.

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    Apr 9, 2020

    Very good course to learn, understand and apply the Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning!

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    Jul 13, 2023

    Excellent, wonderful, very serious material to get to know and PRACTICE foundations of RL.

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    Aug 20, 2021

    Amazing course. But a little bit easy for the people who have learnt RL's prior knowledge.

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    Oct 19, 2020

    This is an awesome course. Assignments are not that hard, and concepts are well explained.

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    By Bartłomiej B

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    Apr 18, 2020

    Awesome course with a lot of interesting knowledge presented and a lot of its applications

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    By Wang G

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    Oct 9, 2019

    Very detailed explanations in the foundations of RL. Thanks both lecturers and the staffs!

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    By John H

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    Sep 18, 2019

    Very good, I suggest reading the text closely and doing exercises to get the most benefit.

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    By Eyal I

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    Jan 14, 2021

    All the material is given in a clear manner, but not at the expense of going into depths.

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    By Rohan S

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    Aug 7, 2020

    Really great course for all the beginners who want to learn about Reinforcement Learning.

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    By Thaw T

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    Sep 17, 2023

    It helped me acquire the fundamental understanding of RL and my journey to RL expertise.

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    By Amit P

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    Aug 24, 2022

    Everything was great! Course instructors, readings, programming assignments and quizzes.

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    By Ivan O C

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    Jun 27, 2021

    Nice introduction to RL fundamentals... I think is a challenge topic but so exciting ...

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    By Jerry H

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    Nov 19, 2020

    Great introduction to Reinforcement Learning, interesting and covered a lot of material.

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    By samir m m

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    Jan 11, 2024

    the content is exceptional thanks to the lecturers who made everything clear and simple

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    By Ehsan S

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    Apr 10, 2023

    It was very wonderful course! This helped me to complete my thesis. Thank you Coursera!

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    By Maurice M

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    Jun 30, 2021

    Excellent first introduction coursework is light Lectures are direct and to the point.

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    By Mahmoud

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    May 6, 2021

    Great intro with nice coding assignments that helps to understand the algorithms better

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    By Sirusala N S

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    Jul 4, 2020

    It is one of the best courses I have taken. The fundamentals were explained very well.

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    By Hamed H

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    May 18, 2020

    it was so useful since the lectures were brief and useful and Homeworks were suitable.

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    By Abhijit R

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    Apr 7, 2021

    I have learnt how to apply Reinforcement Learning to create an intelligent machine...

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    By Tejas H V K

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    Aug 5, 2020

    Simple Enough for anyone to understand and apply the same to any real world scenario.

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    By Anubhab G

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    Jan 9, 2020

    A solid foundation for RL and great pedagogical explanations!!! Highly recommended!!

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    By Jan B

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    Sep 19, 2021

    A nice introduction into the fundamentals of RL. Not trivial, but certainly doable.

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    By Rony A

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    Jun 21, 2020

    Very good course for those who wants to learn some basis of reinforcement learning.

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