Reinforcement Learning

Overview

What you will learn

Through interactive lectures and hands-on exercises, you will: 

• understand the difference between supervised learning and RL;

• be able to gauge which problems in your organization can be solved using RL; 

• gain a solid understanding of state-of-the-art Deep RL algorithms; 

• ability to cast your favorite challenge into the RL framework and recognize the promise and limitations of RL through a hands-on-session and live RL clinic; 

• be able to reason about which RL algorithm is most appropriate for the problem at hand.

The Reinforcement Learning course offered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) includes the unique opportunity to present your organization’s specific technological challenges to MIT faculty during a live RL Clinic—a session designed to help you identify if RL can be used to solve your problems, determine which approach will be most effective, and design RL applications to resolve the issue. During this process, you will draw on the expertise of the course teaching team, which is comprised of recognized industry experts with experience working at 12 firms across multiple industries, from both startups and big tech.