News (August 2024): the textbook has been officially published by Tsinghua University Press in August 2024! If you are interested, please check the online platforms such as Jingdong or TMall.

I developed a textbook and an online open course "Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning".

Textbook:

• PDF download: GitHub homepage
  

• Highlight: The book has received 3000+ stars on GitHub!

• The book has been officially published in China by Tsinghua University Press in August 2024.
  

• The book will be published overseas by Springer Nature Press early 2025.

• The aim of this courseis to provide a mathematical but friendly introduction to the fundamental concepts, basic problems, and classical algorithms in reinforcement learning.

• An overview of the book can be found at the Zhihu page




Chinese lecture videos:

• Links: Bilibili homepage and Youtube homepage
  

• Highlight: The videos have received more than 1,000,000 views on the Internet!

• It is also the first RL course in China University MOOC

English leccture videos (new!):

• The English lecture videos are also online. You are welcome to check: YouTube link