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The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning is a short introductory book on RL, from basics to applied algorithms, distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The repository hosts the book plus supplementary material including PyTorch implementations of algorithms from Monte Carlo methods to PPO and rigorous dynamic programming proofs.

Use cases

• learn reinforcement learning from scratch
• understand how PPO works with a simple implementation
• find PyTorch code examples of classic RL algorithms
• study proofs of dynamic programming algorithms
• get a short readable intro to RL before reading Sutton & Barto
• implement Monte Carlo and temporal-difference methods in Python

When to choose

• you want a concise, beginner-friendly introduction to reinforcement learning
• you prefer learning theory alongside minimal PyTorch reference implementations
• you need rigorous supplementary proofs for dynamic programming topics

When to avoid

• you need a production-ready RL training framework or library
• you want comprehensive coverage of state-of-the-art RL methods beyond PPO
• you need a commercially licensed resource, since the book is CC BY-SA non-commercial in spirit

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machine-learning reinforcement-learning developer-tools reinforcement-learning machine-learning tutorials education python book pytorch reinforcement-learning-algorithms ppo monte-carlo-methods dynamic-programming educational

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