diff --git a/unit1/README.md b/unit1/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d613522 --- /dev/null +++ b/unit1/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +# Unit 1: Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning + +In this Unit, you'll learn the foundations of Deep RL. And **you’ll train your first lander agent 🚀 to land correctly on the Moon 🌕** using Stable-Baselines3 and share it with the community. + +You'll then be able to **compare your agent’s results with other classmates thanks to a leaderboard** 🔥. + +This course is **self-paced**, you can start whenever you want. + +## Required time ⏱️ +The required time for this unit is, approximately: +- 2 hours for the theory +- 1 hour for the hands-on. + +## Start this Unit 🚀 +Here are the steps for this Unit: + +1️⃣ Sign up to our Discord Server. This is the place where you **can exchange with the community and with us, create study groups to grow each other and more**  + +👉🏻 [https://discord.gg/aYka4Yhff9](https://discord.gg/aYka4Yhff9). + +2️⃣ **Introduce yourself on Discord in #introduce-yourself Discord channel 🤗 and check on the left the Reinforcement Learning section.** + +- In #rl-announcements we give the last information about the course. +- #discussions is a place to exchange. +- #unity-ml-agents is to exchange about everything related to this library. +- #study-groups, to create study groups with your classmates. + +![Untitled](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/38b00ee8-2139-476f-b27c-dd62cf8240fc/Untitled.png) + +3️⃣ 📖 Read An [Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning](), where you’ll learn the foundations of Deep RL. You can also watch the video version attached to the article. 👉 [ARTICLE LINK] + +4️⃣ 👩‍💻 Then dive on the hands-on, where **you’ll train your first lander agent 🚀 to land correctly on the Moon 🌕 using Stable-Baselines3 and share it with the community.** Thanks to a leaderboard, **you'll be able to compare your results with other classmates** and exchange the best practices to improve your agent's scores Who will win the challenge for Unit 1 🏆? + +The hands-on 👉 + +The leaderboard 👉 + +You can work directly **with the colab notebook, which allows you not to have to install everything on your machine (and it’s free)**. + +5️⃣ The best way to learn **is to try things on your own**. That’s why we have a challenges section in the colab where we give you some ideas on how you can go further: using another environment, using another model etc. + +## Additional readings 📚 +- [Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Richard Sutton and Andrew G. Barto Chapter 1, 2 and 3](http://incompleteideas.net/book/RLbook2020.pdf) +- [Foundations of Deep RL Series, L1 MDPs, Exact Solution Methods, Max-ent RL by Pieter Abbeel](https://youtu.be/2GwBez0D20A) +- [Spinning Up RL by OpenAI Part 1: Key concepts of RL](https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/spinningup/rl_intro.html) + +## How to make the most of this course + +To make the most of the course, my advice is to: + +- Participate in Discord channel and join a study group. +- Read multiple time the theory part and takes some notes +- Don’t just do the colab. When you learn something try to change the environment, change the parameters and read the libraries documentations. Have fun 🥳 + +## This is a course built with you 👷🏿‍♀️ + +We want to improve and update the course iteratively with your feedback. If you have some, please open an issue on the Github Repo: [https://github.com/huggingface/deep-rl-class/issues](https://github.com/huggingface/deep-rl-class/issues) + +## Don’t forget to join the Community 📢 + +We have a discord server where you **can exchange with the community and with us, create study groups to grow each other and more**  + +👉🏻 [https://discord.gg/aYka4Yhff9](https://discord.gg/aYka4Yhff9). + +Don’t forget to **introduce yourself when you sign up 🤗** + +❓If you have other questions, [please check our FAQ](https://github.com/huggingface/deep-rl-class#faq) + +Keep learning, stay awesome,