Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making MLSALT7 Lent 2016

Taught By: Professor Zoubin Ghahramani and Dr Matthew Hoffman

Year: MPhil in Machine Learning and Speech Technology; also open to MPhil and PhD students in any Department.

Structure & Assessment:8 lectures (organized as 4 double lectures), 1 coursework revision, 1 piece of course work. The evaluation is by coursework only. There is no final exam.

Time: Wednesday 3pm to 5pm, on Jan 20th, Jan 27th, Feb 3rd, Feb 10th.

Location: LR3A (Inglis Building), Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street (map)

Coursework: The coursework can be downloaded here; see also the provided code.

Textbook: There is no required textbook. However, several texts cover reinforcement learning, e.g.

Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto Reinforcement Learning, the MIT Press (1998).

Lecture 3 and 4

Lecture 5 and 5

Lecture 7 and 8