Reinforcement Learning: An Overview
2024/12/06 by Kevin Murphy, Kevin J. Murphy, Murphy, Kevin · 26 voices
Computer Science · #Adaptive Dynamic Programming Control #Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) #Reinforcement Learning in Robotics #cs.AI #cs.LG
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2412.05265
openalex publication_date 2024/12/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Abstract
This manuscript gives a big-picture, up-to-date overview of the field of (deep) reinforcement learning and sequential decision making, covering value-based methods, policy-based methods, model-based methods, multi-agent RL, LLMs and RL, and various other topics (e.g., offline RL, hierarchical RL, intrinsic reward). It also includes some code snippets for training LLMs with RL.
Discussions
- An updated intro to reinforcement learning by Kevin Murphy: arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265! Like their books, it covers a lot and is quite up to date with modern approaches. It also is pretty unique in cove [bsky, 271 points, 9 comments]
- Reinforcement Learning: An Overview [hn, 82 points, 12 comments]
- The RL book by Kevin Murphy is finally online (copied shamelessly from the other place) arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265 [bsky, 73 points, 3 comments]
- A new tutorial on RL by Kevin Patrick Murphy, a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind who also wrote several comprehensive, well-regarded textbooks on ML/DL. This ought to be a good read 👀 arxiv.or [bsky, 38 points, 1 comments]
- Check out Kevin Patrick Murphy's latest draft tutorial on reinforcment learning. It's a comprehensive overview that introduces fundamental concepts of RL and shares recent advancements in the field. [bsky, 17 points, 1 comments]
- Reinforcement Learning: An Overview [hn, 6 points, 1 comments]
- arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265 [bsky, 4 points, 0 comments]
- FWIW, my target audience is Econ/Finance PhDs, who will know dynamic programming and some supervised learning but not RL. A tentative option, open to change: A few early chapters of Murphy arxiv.org/a [bsky, 3 points, 1 comments]
- Reinforcement Learning: An Overview This gem just dropped on arXiv. An up-to-date overview of reinforcement learning and sequential decision-making. arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265 [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]
- @sirbayes.bsky.social has yet another comprehensive book released this week. This one covers the most up to date methodologies, (and I particularly like the chapter organization too!) arxiv.org/abs/2 [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
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- Reinforcement Learning: An Overview (December 2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910028) [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
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- Reinforcement Learning: An Overview (December 2024) [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
- Reinforcement Learning: An Overview (December 2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910028) [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
- Reinforcement Learning: An Overview (December 2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265 [comments] [18 points] [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
- Manuscript by Kevin Murphy gives a big-picture, up-to-date overview of the field of deep reinforcement learning and sequential decision making, covering value-based RL, policy-gradient methods, model- [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
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- Overview of (deep) RL by @sirbayes.bsky.social. #ai #reinforcementlearning arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- @sirbayes.bsky.social Just droped the following paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265 I guess this is my christmas present. I got a hardcover copy of his first book more than 10 years ago also for christmas [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- A new self-contained monograph on Reinforcement Learning by K. Murphy. Compact; model-based RL is especially interesting and not surveyed elsewhere. #ai https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.05265 [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
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