Artificial Intelligence · Reinforcement Learning
A topic within Reinforcement Learning, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Artificial Intelligence.
Assumes you know the vocabulary.
Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning
Csaba Szepesvári · 2010
A short formal survey of the main reinforcement-learning algorithms and, more usefully, of what has actually been proven about when they converge.
Primary sources and full treatments.
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
Richard Sutton & Andrew Barto · 1998
The standard text: builds the whole field from the bandit problem up to function approximation and policy gradients.
+1 more at this level
3 works
Csaba Szepesvári
A short formal survey of the main reinforcement-learning algorithms and, more usefully, of what has actually been proven about when they converge.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Richard Sutton & Andrew Barto
The standard text: builds the whole field from the bandit problem up to function approximation and policy gradients.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley RAIL)
Presents deep reinforcement learning as a set of competing answers to one question — how to get a gradient from delayed reward — and is candid about which methods fail in practice.
link checked 17 Sept 2026