{"id":29283,"date":"2024-08-16T11:10:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T15:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/?page_id=29283"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:10:45","slug":"cs766","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/academic-programs\/courses\/cs766\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Reinforcement Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<style><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span> p {margin-bottom:0px;} .course-feed .cf-course h4 {display: none; white-space: wrap;} .button{width:125px;}<\/style>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"course-feed\"><div class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<h4>Deep Reinforcement Learning<\/h4>\n\t<p class=\"meta\">MET CS 766 (4 credits)<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p>Prerequisites: MET CS 767 or consent of instructor. - Investigate reinforcement learning, focusing on fundamental concepts and advanced techniques. You will begin with an introduction to reinforcement learning and key concepts, such as exploitation versus exploration and Markov Decision Processes. Then, as the course progresses, you will delve into state transition diagrams, the Bellman equation, and solutions to the Multi-Armed Bandits problem. Challenges and methods for control and prediction will be explored, as well as tabular methods such as Monte Carlo, Dynamic Programming, Temporal Difference Learning, SARSA, and Q-Learning. The course culminates in a review of neural network concepts, covering convolutional and recurrent neural networks, and approximation methods for both discrete and continuous spaces, including DQN and its variants. Policy gradient methods, actor-critic methods, and ethical considerations in AI and safety issues are also discussed.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p class=\"\"><em>2026FALLMETCS766A1, Sep 2nd to Dec 10th 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-table\">\n<table>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<th>Days<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Start<\/th>\n\t\t<th>End<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Type<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Bldg<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Room<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t<td>T<\/td>\n\t<td>06:00 PM<\/td>\n\t<td>08:45 PM<\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n\t<td>CAS<\/td>\n\t<td>426<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Format &amp; Syllabus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"btn-group\">\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">On Campus<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/08\/Syllabus-CS766-Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Syllabus.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/01\/CS_766_Syllabus_2026.pdf\">766 A1 SPRG26<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/08\/Syllabus-CS766-Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Syllabus.pdf\">766 A1 FALL25<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\" disabled=\"disabled\">Online<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\"><button class=\"button\" disabled=\"disabled\">Blended<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfloat\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Format &amp; Syllabus: On Campus 766 A1 SPRG26766 A1 FALL25 Online Blended &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22903,"featured_media":0,"parent":7301,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29283"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31281,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29283\/revisions\/31281"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}