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.
Are you new to Discord? Check our discord 101 to get the best practices 👉 https://github.com/huggingface/deep-rl-class/blob/main/DISCORD.Md
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.
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. 👉 https://huggingface.co/blog/deep-rl-intro
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 👉 https://github.com/huggingface/deep-rl-class/blob/main/unit1/unit1.ipynb
The leaderboard 👉 https://huggingface.co/spaces/ThomasSimonini/Lunar-Lander-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 📚
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Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Richard Sutton and Andrew G. Barto Chapter 1, 2 and 3
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Foundations of Deep RL Series, L1 MDPs, Exact Solution Methods, Max-ent RL by Pieter Abbeel
How to make the most of this course
To make the most of the course, my advice is to:
- Participate in Discord and join a study group.
- Read multiple times 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' documentation. Have fun 🥳
- Struggling is a good thing in learning. It means that you start to build new skills. Deep RL is a complex topic and it takes time to understand. Try different approaches, use our additional readings, and exchange with classmates on discord.
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
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.
Don’t forget to introduce yourself when you sign up 🤗
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Keep learning, stay awesome,