Reinforcement Learning Course
How do AI teams use RL in production?
RL Part 13: An exploration of real-world RL case studies.
Sanyog Mishra
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Reinforcement Learning Course
Agentic RL: Environments, Trajectories, and the Training
RL Part 12: From a single judged group to a full multi-step training loop with ART and RULER.
Reinforcement Learning Course
The Reward Signal Problem for Agents
RL Part 11: From verifiable rewards to LLM-as-a-judge.
Reinforcement Learning Course
Verifiable Rewards and GRPO
RL Part 10: Dropping two models from the four-model pipeline, and building rewards you can trust.
Reinforcement Learning Course
RLHF: Aligning Language Models with Human Feedback
Part 9: From human preferences to a trained reward signal, and the four-model PPO pipeline.
Reinforcement Learning Course
Proximal Policy Optimization
RL Part 8: Trust regions, the clipped surrogate, and the workhorse of modern RL.
Reinforcement Learning Course
Policy Gradients: REINFORCE and Actor-Critic
RL Part 7: Learning the policy directly, from REINFORCE to actor-critic.
Reinforcement Learning Course
Function Approximation
RL Part 5: From tables to parameterized value functions.
Reinforcement Learning Course
Model-Free Learning
RL Part 4: Learning value functions and policies without a model. Monte Carlo methods, TD(0), SARSA, Q-learning, and the bias-variance bridge between them.
Reinforcement Learning Course
Bellman Equations and Dynamic Programming
RL Part 3: Bellman expectation and optimality equations, policy iteration, value iteration, and why dynamic programming needs a model.
Reinforcement Learning Course
Markov Decision Processes and Value Functions
RL Part 2: Markov decision processes, returns, policies, and value functions.
Reinforcement Learning Course
Foundations of Reinforcement Learning
RL Part 1: Agents, environments, rewards, and why RL is different from supervised learning.
MLOps/LLMOps Course
Concepts of LLM Serving
LLMOps Part 14: An overview of the fundamentals of LLM serving, including API-based access, inference with vLLM, and practical decisions.
MLOps/LLMOps Course
Context Engineering: Memory and Temporal Context
LLMOps Part 8: A concise overview of memory, dynamic and temporal context in LLM systems, covering short and long-term memory, dynamic context injection, and some of the common context failure modes in agentic applications.
