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Hands-On Intelligent Agents with OpenAI Gym

Hands-On Intelligent Agents with OpenAI Gym

By : Palanisamy
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Hands-On Intelligent Agents with OpenAI Gym

Hands-On Intelligent Agents with OpenAI Gym

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By: Palanisamy

Overview of this book

Many real-world problems can be broken down into tasks that require a series of decisions to be made or actions to be taken. The ability to solve such tasks without a machine being programmed requires a machine to be artificially intelligent and capable of learning to adapt. This book is an easy-to-follow guide to implementing learning algorithms for machine software agents in order to solve discrete or continuous sequential decision making and control tasks. Hands-On Intelligent Agents with OpenAI Gym takes you through the process of building intelligent agent algorithms using deep reinforcement learning starting from the implementation of the building blocks for configuring, training, logging, visualizing, testing, and monitoring the agent. You will walk through the process of building intelligent agents from scratch to perform a variety of tasks. In the closing chapters, the book provides an overview of the latest learning environments and learning algorithms, along with pointers to more resources that will help you take your deep reinforcement learning skills to the next level.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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To get the most out of this book

The following will be required:

  • Some working knowledge of Python programming in order to understand the syntax, module imports, and library installations
  • Some experience with Linux or macOS X command line for basic tasks, such as navigating the filesystem and running Python scripts

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system."

A block of code is set as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import gym
env = gym.make("Qbert-v0")
MAX_NUM_EPISODES = 10
MAX_STEPS_PER_EPISODE = 500

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

for episode in range(MAX_NUM_EPISODES):
obs = env.reset()
for step in range(MAX_STEPS_PER_EPISODE):
env.render()

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ python get_observation_action_space.py 'MountainCar-v0'

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select System info from the Administration panel."

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