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Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

Richard S. Sutton info, Andrew G. Barto info

First published 1998

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About this book

Learning from reward, and its links to dopamine and the brain.

The authors

Richard S. Sutton

born 1950 · Canadian computer scientist

  • Turing Award
  • Fellow of the Royal Society
Profession
AI researcher, Computer scientist, Professor
Worked at
University of Alberta
Studied at
Stanford, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Studied under
Andrew Barto
Prizes
Turing Award (2024), Fellow of the Royal Society (2021), AAAI Fellow (2001), Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (2018)

Shared the 2024 Turing Award for reinforcement learning.

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Andrew G. Barto

born 1948 · Professor of computer science

Profession
AI researcher, Computer scientist, Professor
Worked at
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Studied at
University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Michigan
Studied under
Bernard P. Zeigler
Prizes
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, IEEE Fellow, IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award

Shared the 2024 Turing Award with his former student Richard Sutton.

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Reading order

Prerequisite: Artificial Intelligence (Russell)

Pairs with: Deep Learning (Goodfellow)

In print

Yes · MIT Press, 2nd edition

Which edition

Get the 2nd edition (2018), much expanded. The authors also put it online free.

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Editions

8 editions · 1 hardcover, 0 paperback

First published 1998

Earliest edition listed: 1992 · Springer US · [Electronic Resource] /

  • 1992 · Springer US · [Electronic Resource] / · ISBN 9781461366089
  • 1998 · MIT Press · ISBN 9780585024455
  • 1998 · MIT Press · ISBN 9780262332767
  • 1998 · MIT Press · ISBN 9780262303842
  • 1998 · MIT Press · ISBN 9780262257053
  • 2018 · MIT Press · ISBN 9780262352703
  • 2018 · MIT Press · ISBN 9780262352697
  • 2018 · A Bradford Book · Hardcover · ISBN 9780262039246

The list may be incomplete, especially for older and non-English editions.

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