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Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning
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This is the homepage of a new book entitled "Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning."
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2 sourcesThe text has some great explanatory diagrams and looks to be a very high quality overview of ML thru the lens of probability, with lots of math.
I was also recently impressed by Zhaos "Mathematical Foundation of Reinforcement Learning", free textbook and video lectures on YT : https://github.com/MathFoundationRL/Book-Mathematical-Founda...
If you dont have a lot of time, at least glance at Zhaos overview contents diagram, its a good conceptual map of the whole field, imo .. here :
https://github.com/MathFoundationRL/Book-Mathematical-Founda...
and maybe watch the intro video.
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