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Deep Reinforcement Learning (CS 285)

UC Berkeley

FreeadvancedVideo series

Sergey Levine's graduate course goes deep on policy gradients, actor-critic, model-based RL, offline RL, exploration, and inverse RL with PyTorch homework. For learners aiming at RL research or robotics who want the most advanced free syllabus available.

Who it's for

Advanced learners with ML and probability. This is an advanced course in Reinforcement Learning & Robotics, running about One semester (~25 lectures).

Cost at a glance

Free. Fall 2023 lecture recordings linked on the site (YouTube); homework repos public.

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