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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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    By Dror L

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    Jul 31, 2020

    Clear and pleasant recorded presentations. Very good and precise reading materials. Time estimate for reading materials are super optimistic. Guest lectures are at best inspiring. No real value. They are unfocused and all over the place.

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    By Ed J

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    Apr 26, 2020

    I think the course was well put together and the labs were clear. My only real complaint is that the book and tests spent a lot of time proving and manipulating equations. I am mostly interested in using the formulas and programming.

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    By Aresh B

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    Jan 14, 2021

    The coding assignments are a bit confusing. If you expand on coding assignment and probably provide a more step by step instruction as how the functions are being defined, or how the environments are created it would be way better.

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    By Alper A

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    Mar 29, 2020

    Course is fine, but there could be more coding practices then the theoretical part. There are two coding assignments which are hard to do only with the course. The course context could be extended to include more coding practices.

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    By Victor C B

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    Aug 22, 2022

    Good course. The bulk of the content learned is in the textbook. The quizzes were sometimes a bit tricky with wording but it might have been because I wasn't careful enough. I feel excited to start the next course in this series!

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    By Ayse E G

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    Sep 28, 2019

    The course is a very good introduction to RL but the concepts are handled a little too abstractly. However this provides an excellent fundamental for the rest of the courses. I would have liked more programming exercises.

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    By Mauri K

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    Nov 23, 2020

    A very useful and also rather compact course. I can recommend to anyone interested in the subject matter. I did expect a little bit more hands-on action (ie. more concrete, yet still simple examples in the coding side).

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    By Jihun Y

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    Mar 13, 2022

    This course covers fundamentals of reinforcement learning from a book, "Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction" and that is a good thing; however, the course asks you to study by yourself by reading the book.

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    By Aravind M

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    Oct 26, 2020

    A really good introductory course to RL. The instructors have structured the course in the same manner as in the specified textbook (which is also great), so it's easy to follow them both at the same time.

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    By Aaron H

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    Sep 11, 2019

    Great material, and awesome coding exercises. Some additional information or context around a few of the problems would have been great, but nonetheless the struggle allowed me to grow in my knowledge!

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    By Aboozar R

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    Oct 28, 2020

    The video lectures were very short and just a repetition of the book itself. After we studied the book, the lectures didn't have anything new for us. They should have been different and more hands-on.

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    By Aidan M

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    Aug 24, 2020

    Don't think it would be unreasonable to have more demanding coding assignments where all functions are made from scratch (though the function names and some comments might be provided as an outline.

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    By Kunal S

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    Aug 9, 2023

    nice material. really breaks down hard concepts into easy to digest chunks. However, you will have to read the book to answer questions and delivery method of instructor could have been better

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    By Ulf Ä

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    Jan 3, 2021

    The book is essential reading. It took me longer than the estimates to do the reading and the programming assignments. I would have liked more gridworld examples to get a faster hang of it.

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    By Christian J R F

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    Apr 2, 2020

    Great course, I think theory is really well explained and book is great, but including more practice exercises is needed for this course to strengthen the learning of concepts.

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    By Narendra G

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    Jun 5, 2020

    The course is well developed, reading the reference book is the most important thing that you will do while taking this course. The delivery of both instructors seems robotic.

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    By Nils S

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    Oct 29, 2020

    Very good an enjoyable course. It seemed like the explanations dwelled on the easier parts and skipped the parts that I would like to have seen in concrete numbers.

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    By Nathaniel W

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    Aug 25, 2020

    The instructions on how to translate equations to code could have either had examples in the presentations or in the jupyter notebooks. Overall an excellent course.

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    By Rafee S

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    Oct 2, 2023

    Please stop playing the music at the beginning of each video. Also, remove the animation sound from presentation slide transitions, they are interrupting the flow.

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    By David S

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    Sep 27, 2019

    It will be good to include more detailed examples and more practice exercices in week 2 and 3. Also to repair the week 4 submission.

    Although, It is a good course.

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    By Muhammed A Ç

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    Jul 15, 2021

    Without reading the recommended book, course material would not be sufficient. Coding exercises quite good and also quizzes' are suitable for beginner level

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    By Naresh T

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    Mar 28, 2020

    Good understanding of the fundamentals and aptly paced. The programming assignments were very good if there were more like that the course could get better

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    By aysegul

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    Jun 9, 2021

    It brings general understanding. The main focus is reading the book. Assignments are about the introduction, help to understand, but they can be improved.

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    By Romesh M P

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    May 21, 2020

    I really enjoyed the course, especially the guest segments (I got to know important people from that). Presenters did a good job but can be more relaxed.

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    By Jo K

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    Jan 29, 2021

    Very good introductory course for reinforcement learning. Good coding assignment, but could add more visual representation to understand the transition.

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