What is Reinforcement Learning?

RL algorithms, reward modelling, RLHF, policy gradients, Q-learning and multi-agent RL

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Reinforcement Learning Lessons — Free Learning

Dev.to · Madhumitha Kolkar 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago

I Taught an Agent to Act Directly - No Q-Values Needed (Day 6: REINFORCE)

SERIES: Learning RL and JAX in Public - from zero to DeepMind :) Days 4 and 5 were value-based...

Dev.to · Sebastian Buzdugan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Snapshot Once, Rollout a Thousand Times: A Practical RL Setup for Coding Agents

Your GPUs aren't the RL bottleneck, rebuilding the environment is. Snapshot the world once, fork it into thousands of rollouts. Real numbers, runnable harness.

Dev.to · Devanshu Biswas 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Q-Learning From Scratch: Reinforcement Learning in a Gridworld

No labels, no "correct answer" — just rewards. Reinforcement learning lets an agent figure out the...

Dev.to · Shrijith Venkatramana 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards: Why AI is Learning to Grade Its Own Homework

Hello, I'm Shrijith Venkatramana. I'm building git-lrc, an AI code reviewer that runs on every...

Dev.to · keeper 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

The Missing Piece in Jason Wei's Framework: When to Go On-Policy

The Missing Piece in Jason Wei's Framework: When to Go On-Policy Jason Wei — the...

Dev.to · Garrin Costa, Jr. 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

On Optimization Objectives in Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning: Optimization and Objective Methods There are a few paradigms or...

Latent Space 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

How to Stop Shipping Low-Quality RL Environments (with Examples)

Your broken harness is actively making the model worse. Here's what I keep seeing after years of eyeballing trajectories, and what you need to fix.

Dev.to · Rijul Rajesh 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Understanding Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback Part 6: How the Reward Model Trains the Original Model

In the previous article, we used loss functions and trained our reward model. In this article, we...

Dev.to · Rijul Rajesh 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Understanding Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback Part 4: Teaching Models Human Preferences

In the previous article, we explored the part where we collect human preferences. In this article, we...

Dev.to · Rijul Rajesh 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Understanding Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback Part 2: Aligning Pretrained Models

In the previous article, we explored the concept of pre-training and its limitations without a...

Dev.to · Rijul Rajesh 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Understanding Reinforcement Learning with Neural Networks Part 3: Guessing the Ideal Output

In the previous article, we explored the limitations of backpropagation and why it is not ideal when...

Dev.to · Stat Phantom 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Removing PER From Rainbow DQN Set a New Snake AI World Record

Greetings all! Quick context: this is part of an ongoing series where I'm building Rainbow DQN one...

Dev.to · Ethan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

Top 5 Reinforcement Learning Environments

An RL agent has nothing to learn from without an environment to act in. This piece covers what an RL...

Dev.to · Harsh Agnihotri 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

Reinforcement Learning / Q Learning Basics with Tic Tac Toe

Hi Fam, on my journey of learning AI & ML, since I am too dumb to just make "AI Learns to walk"...

Dev.to · Rikin Patel 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

Human-Aligned Decision Transformers for deep-sea exploration habitat design under real-time policy constraints

While exploring reinforcement learning architectures for autonomous systems, I stumbled upon a fascinating challenge that would consume my research for months.

Dev.to · Valeria Solovyova 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 3mo ago

Balancing Foundational RL Knowledge with Modern RL-for-LLM Research for Effective Study Approach

Expert Analytical Section: Navigating the Intersection of Reinforcement Learning and Large...

Dev.to · Manvel Avetisian 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

Training and Deploying RL for a $500 Sidewalk Robot

How I trained and deployed RL on $500 sidewalk robot I've built -- including drowning, fire,...

Dev.to · asmniins-DS 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

Atari Deep Q-Network ProjectAtari Deep Q-Network Project

Overview This project implements 3 reinforcement learning agents using Deep Q-Networks...

Dev.to · Frank Fu 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

Understanding Reinforcement Learning through OpenDuck

Objective: Replicate the OpenDuck Mini project and control it using the RDK X5 development...

Dev.to · Aditya Gupta 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

The Challenge of Unverifiable AI Rewards

Dive deep into RLVR, a novel approach for generating verifiable rewards that enhance the reliability

Dev.to · Aditya Gupta 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

Revisiting the Causal Mechanisms Behind Policy Gradients

Uncover critical, overlooked concepts in Reinforcement Learning. Go beyond GRPO to find foundational

Dev.to · Ethan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago

6 Best Reinforcement Learning (RL) Tools in 2026

The Bottleneck Shifted. Your Tooling Should Too. For most of the last decade, the...

Dev.to · Sreekar Reddy 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 4mo ago

🎮 Reinforcement Learning Explained Like You're 5

Learning by trial, error, and rewards

Dev.to · naveen kumar 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 5mo ago

How I Built a Secure Survey Reward Platform Using React & FastAPI

Survey reward platforms look simple on the surface. User completes survey → earns points → withdraws...

Dev.to · Ruslan Manov 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 6mo ago

Building a regime-switching particle filter in Rust — from Kalman 1960 to rayon-parallelized Monte Carlo

Building a regime-switching particle filter in Rust — from Kalman 1960 to rayon-parallelized...

Dev.to · Jacob Lee 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 6mo ago

Fixing an Off-By-One Bug in PufferLib's PPO Implementation

Fixing an Off-By-One Bug in PufferLib's PPO Implementation The Problem I was looking through...

Dev.to · davide lettieri 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 6mo ago

Sutton & Barto Gridworld example in C#

Lately, I've been exploring various examples from Sutton and Barto's "Reinforcement Learning: An...

Dev.to · Mikuz 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 7mo ago

Reinforcement Learning Environments: How AI Agents Learn Through Experience

Artificial intelligence agents improve through interaction and feedback, a process known as...

Dev.to · Minoltan Issack 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

AWS Use Cases | Enhanced Streak System for Game Portal with Leaderboards & Rewards

Introduction to Streaks A streak is a consecutive count of days (or actions) a user...

Dev.to · Mike Sorrenti 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

Level Up! The Art of Designing Game Progression and Player Rewards

In any game, progression is about more than just leveling up. It's a journey. A well-designed...

Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

Levitating Precision: Reinforcement Learning for Non-Contact Robotics

Levitating Precision: Reinforcement Learning for Non-Contact Robotics Imagine assembling...

Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

Monte Carlo Neural Operators: Democratizing Physics Simulations by Arvind Sundararajan

Monte Carlo Neural Operators: Democratizing Physics Simulations Tired of wrestling with...

Dev.to · Flex 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

From Building Projects to Building Products: The Mindset Shift I Didn’t Know I Needed

Over the last few weeks, something clicked for me: Tech doesn’t reward learners. Tech rewards...

Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

Turbocharging AI: Twice Sequential Monte Carlo for Lightning-Fast Decisions by Arvind Sundararajan

Turbocharging AI: Twice Sequential Monte Carlo for Lightning-Fast Decisions Imagine an AI...

Dev.to · Dima Zaichenko 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

How I Added On-Chain Rewards and NFTs to Solana Quiz: Practical Insights, Pitfalls, and Tips

In my previous article on Dev.to, I shared how I built a small app - Solana Quiz, where users answer...

Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

Quantum-Inspired Encoding: A Leap in Offline Reinforcement Learning

Quantum-Inspired Encoding: A Leap in Offline Reinforcement Learning Imagine training a...

Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

Quantum-Inspired State Sculpting: Revolutionizing Offline Reinforcement Learning by Arvind Sundararajan

Quantum-Inspired State Sculpting: Revolutionizing Offline Reinforcement Learning Imagine...

Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

Quantum-Inspired Shortcuts: Reinforcement Learning on a Budget

Quantum-Inspired Shortcuts: Reinforcement Learning on a Budget Imagine training a robot to...

Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

Quantum-Inspired Geometry: Boosting Offline Reinforcement Learning with Compact State Representations

Quantum-Inspired Geometry: Boosting Offline Reinforcement Learning with Compact State...

Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

Quantum-Inspired Encoding: Revolutionizing Reinforcement Learning with Scarce Data

Quantum-Inspired Encoding: Revolutionizing Reinforcement Learning with Scarce Data Imagine...

Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

Data-Scarce Reinforcement Learning: A Quantum-Inspired Shortcut

Data-Scarce Reinforcement Learning: A Quantum-Inspired Shortcut Imagine training a robot...

Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

Quantum-Inspired Data Sculpting: Revolutionizing Offline Reinforcement Learning

Quantum-Inspired Data Sculpting: Revolutionizing Offline Reinforcement Learning Imagine...

Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

Unleash AI on Tiny Hardware: Quantization for Embedded Reinforcement Learning by Arvind Sundararajan

Unleash AI on Tiny Hardware: Quantization for Embedded Reinforcement Learning Tired of...

Dev.to · Vikram Lingam 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 8mo ago

Reinforcement Learning: Why It's Quietly Powering the AI Revolution

Picture this: it's 2016, and a bunch of folks are glued to their screens watching a computer...

Dev.to · Daily Bugle 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 9mo ago

WTF is Inverse Reinforcement Learning?

WTF is this: Unraveling the Mystery of Inverse Reinforcement Learning Ah, the joys of trying to...

Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 9mo ago

Unlocking AI Speed: The Hidden Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning

Unlocking AI Speed: The Hidden Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning Imagine training an AI...

Dev.to · Aniket Hingane 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 9mo ago

Building Intelligent AI Agents with Modular Reinforcement Learning

Building Intelligent AI Agents with Modular Reinforcement Learning TL;DR I...

Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🎮 Reinforcement Learning 9mo ago

Decision Trees Evolved: Faster, Smarter Reinforcement Learning by Arvind Sundararajan

Decision Trees Evolved: Faster, Smarter Reinforcement Learning Imagine a self-driving car...