Monday, August 22
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Reinforcement learning (RL) is gaining traction as a complementary approach to supervised learning for applications from recommender systems to games to production planning. This has been partly due to the ability of new simulators to run code in parallel, thus speeding up training times.
This course will teach you how to create a multiplayer game, solvable by RL, using RLlib. You will learn the basics of RL and how to use RLlib to train the different behaviors of the game's characters. We will then optimize our models' hyperparameters with Ray Tune and also learn how to add an in-game item recommendation system using offline RL.
Using Jupyter notebooks running on Anyscale in the cloud, we will combine theoretical concepts of RL with practical exercises. You will leave with a complete, working example of parallelized Python RL code using Ray RLlib on a GitHub repo.
Key takeaways:
Level: Beginners or intermediate data scientists/ML/RL engineers
Prerequisite knowledge or skills:
Sven Mika has been working as a machine learning engineer for Anyscale since early 2020. He is the lead developer of RLlib, Ray's industry-grade, scalable reinforcement learning (RL) library. His team is currently focusing on better supporting the most promising industry use cases, such as massive-multi-agent algorithms for league-based self-play, working with recommender systems and slate recommendation algos such as contextual bandits, and integrating with Ray's new datasets library for a better offline RL experience. A continuing effort of his is asserting high levels of stability and test coverage to ensure RLlib's rapid adoption in industry and research and helping to grow its community and contributor base. Before starting at Anyscale, he has been a leading developer of other successful open-source RL library projects, such as RLgraph and TensorForce.
Christy Bergman is a developer advocate at Anyscale. Her work involves figuring out how to parallelize different AI algorithms and creating demos and tutorials on how to use Ray and Anyscale. Before that, she was a senior AI/ML specialist solutions architect at AWS and a data scientist at several other companies. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking and bird watching.
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