~/Deep Reinforcement Learning

I am interested in sample-efficient reinforcement learning. That is, decreases the number of interactions an agent needs with an environment to achieve some goal. In the Fall of 2019, I approached this by integrating interactive demonstration data into the optimized Deep Q-Networks algorithm.

The results are positive and are heavily documented through the following:

Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Undergraduate Honors Defense

Thanks to my advisor Dr. Ron Zacharksi and my committee members for all their feedback on my work!

The semester prior, I built a reinforcement learning library with implementations of several popular papers. (Semi-Weekly Progress).

I also presented at my school’s research symposium. (Slides) (Abstract)

In the summer of 2019, I became interested in having the interactions with the environment be in a separate process. This inspired two different implementations, ZeroMQ and HTTP. Given the option, you should use the ZeroMQ implementation since it contains less communication overhead.