Reward Engineering for Classic Control Problems on OpenAI Gym |DQN |RL

Custom reward functions for faster learning!

Sachin
Towards Data Science
5 min readNov 17, 2019

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I started learning reinforcement learning by trying to solve problems on OpenAI gym. I specifically chose classic control problems as they are a combination of mechanics and reinforcement learning. In this article, I will show how choosing an appropriate reward function leads to faster learning using deep Q networks (DQN).

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