AILGDec 6, 2024

Reinforcement Learning: An Overview

arXiv:2412.05265v48 citations
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It serves as an introductory resource for researchers and practitioners in AI and ML, offering a broad survey of existing techniques rather than incremental or novel contributions.

The manuscript provides a comprehensive overview of the field of reinforcement learning and sequential decision making, covering various methods and topics without presenting new experimental results or specific numerical findings.

This manuscript gives a big-picture, up-to-date overview of the field of (deep) reinforcement learning and sequential decision making, covering value-based methods, policy-based methods, model-based methods, multi-agent RL, LLMs and RL, and various other topics (e.g., offline RL, hierarchical RL, intrinsic reward).

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