CMPT 729: Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement learning is the branch of machine learning that studies learning to act. Agents observe, predict, and act to change their environment. Reinforcement learning has notable success in learning to play games and control robots. In this course, we will cover fundamental concepts and algorithms, and introduce techniques that underlie many of the successes from reinforcement learning.

Instructor: Jason Peng (Office Hour: Wed 1:30-2:00pm TASC 9007)

TA: Anandharaju Raju (Office Hour: Thu 4-5pm Zoom)

Lectures:
Monday 12:30pm-2:20pm (WMC 2202)
Wednesday 12:30pm-1:20pm (WMC 3210)

Grading

3 programming assignments (40%)

A1 (10%) - Due Oct 5
A2 (15%) - Due Oct 26
A3 (15%) - Due Nov 23

Course project (60%)

Info
Proposal (10%) - Due Oct 19
- Template
Presentation (25%)
- Info
Report (25%) - Due Dec 7
- Info
- Template

Late days: You have 3 late days that you can use for any assignment. You can distribute the late days however you like, but they can only be applied to programming assignments. Once you run out of late days, any late assignments will no longer be accepted.