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Reinforcement Learning
2013
INTERMEDIATE

Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Silver, Alex Graves, et al. · 2013

DQN. Deep Q-Networks learn to play Atari games from raw pixels, kickstarting the deep reinforcement learning era.

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  • Outline: a plain-English breakdown of the paper's core idea, prerequisites, and the concepts you'll need to implement it.
  • Exercises: five to ten hands-on tasks, each with a concept card, a prompt, a starter code stub, and a collapsible reference solution.
  • Runnable notebook: a single .ipynb you can download and open in Jupyter or VS Code to work through every exercise.
  • Extensions: suggested follow-up experiments so you don't stop at a faithful reimplementation.