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19981990s
Organizations
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Major Achievements
- •Co-authored the seminal textbook 'Reinforcement Learning' with Richard Sutton.
- •Developed the actor-critic architecture, highly influential in modern deep RL.
- •Focused heavily on understanding trial-and-error learning in artificial systems aligned with animal conditioning.
Key Papers
- Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto · MIT Press · 1998
- Neuronlike Adaptive Elements That Can Solve Difficult Learning Control Problems
Andrew G. Barto, Richard S. Sutton, Charles W. Anderson · IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics · 1983
Videos
What is So Interesting About Reinforcement Learning? | Andrew Barto
U-M Computer Science and Engineering