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19981990s
Organizations
University of AlbertaDeepMindGTE Labs
Major Achievements
- •Co-authored 'Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction' (1998) with Andrew Barto.
- •Invented Temporal Difference learning, unifying Monte Carlo and Dynamic Programming methods.
- •His theoretical frameworks directly underpin modern superhuman systems like AlphaGo.
Key Papers
- Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto · MIT Press · 1998
- Learning to Predict by the Methods of Temporal Differences
Richard S. Sutton · Machine Learning · 1988