TensorFlow 2 Reinforcement Learning Cookbook: Over 50 recipes to help you build, train, and deploy learning agents for real-world applications

Praveen Palanisamy

ISBN 10: 183898254X / ISBN 13: 9781838982546

Published by Packt Publishing Limited, 2021

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Title: TensorFlow 2 Reinforcement Learning Cookbook...

Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Publication Date: 2021

Binding: Paperback / softback

Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis:

Discover recipes for developing AI applications to solve a variety of real-world business problems using reinforcement learning

Key Features

• Develop and deploy deep reinforcement learning-based solutions to production pipelines, products, and services
• Explore popular reinforcement learning algorithms such as Q-learning, SARSA, and the actor-critic method
• Customize and build RL-based applications for performing real-world tasks

Book Description

With deep reinforcement learning, you can build intelligent agents, products, and services that can go beyond computer vision or perception to perform actions. TensorFlow 2.x is the latest major release of the most popular deep learning framework used to develop and train deep neural networks (DNNs). This book contains easy-to-follow recipes for leveraging TensorFlow 2.x to develop artificial intelligence applications.

Starting with an introduction to the fundamentals of deep reinforcement learning and TensorFlow 2.x, the book covers OpenAI Gym, model-based RL, model-free RL, and how to develop basic agents. You'll discover how to implement advanced deep reinforcement learning algorithms such as actor-critic, deep deterministic policy gradients, deep-Q networks, proximal policy optimization, and deep recurrent Q-networks for training your RL agents. As you advance, you'll explore the applications of reinforcement learning by building cryptocurrency trading agents, stock/share trading agents, and intelligent agents for automating task completion. Finally, you'll find out how to deploy deep reinforcement learning agents to the cloud and build cross-platform apps using TensorFlow 2.x.

By the end of this TensorFlow book, you'll have gained a solid understanding of deep reinforcement learning algorithms and their implementations from scratch.

What You Will Learn

• Build deep reinforcement learning agents from scratch using the all-new TensorFlow 2.x and Keras API
• Implement state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning algorithms using minimal code
• Build, train, and package deep RL agents for cryptocurrency and stock trading
• Deploy RL agents to the cloud and edge to test them by creating desktop, web, and mobile apps and cloud services
• Speed up agent development using distributed DNN model training
• Explore distributed deep RL architectures and discover opportunities in AIaaS (AI as a Service)

Who this book is for

The book is for machine learning application developers, AI and applied AI researchers, data scientists, deep learning practitioners, and students with a basic understanding of reinforcement learning concepts who want to build, train, and deploy their own reinforcement learning systems from scratch using TensorFlow 2.x.

About the Author:

Praveen Palanisamy works on developing autonomous intelligent systems. He is currently an AI researcher at General Motors R&D. He develops planning and decision-making algorithms and systems that use deep reinforcement learning for autonomous driving. Previously, he was at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked on autonomous navigation, including perception and AI for mobile robots. He has experience developing complete, autonomous, robotic systems from scratch.