RL now is where the real action is, it's the engine behind autonomous tech, robots, and the next wave of AI that thinks, moves and solves problems on its own. To stay up to date with what’s happening in RL, we offer some fresh materials on it:
1. "Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback" by Nathan Lambert -> https://rlhfbook.com/ It's a short introduction to RLHF, explaining instruction tuning, reward modeling, alignment methods, synthetic data, evaluation, and more
2. "A Course in Reinforcement Learning (2nd Edition)" by Dimitri P. Bertsekas -> https://www.mit.edu/~dimitrib/RLbook.html Explains dynamic programming (DP) and RL, diving into rollout algorithms, neural networks, policy learning, etc. It’s packed with solved exercises and real-world examples
4. "Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning" by Stefano V. Albrecht, Filippos Christianos, and Lukas Schäfer -> https://www.marl-book.com/ Covers models, core ideas of multi-agent RL (MARL) and modern approaches to combining it with deep learning
5. "Reinforcement Learning: A Comprehensive Overview" by Kevin P. Murphy -> https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.05265 Explains RL and sequential decision making, covering value-based, policy-gradient, model-based, multi-agent RL methods, RL+LLMs, and RL+inference and other topics