Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Fundamentals and advanced topics of reinforcement learning (RL), computational learning approach where agent tries to maximize total amount of reward it receives while interacting with complex and uncertain environments. Includes introduction of Markov decision processes, model-free RL and model-based RL methods, policy optimization, RL distributed system design, as well as case studies of RL in game playing such as AlphaGo, traffic simulation, autonomous driving, and other machine autonomy applications. Advanced topics of RL such as multi-agent RL, human-in-loop method, and imitation learning. Letter grading.

Units: 4.0