AI3601: Reinforcement Learning

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Spring 2025

Teaching Staff

	name	email	office hour
Instructor	Shuai Li	shuaili8@sjtu.edu.cn	Thr 1-2 PM Rm 1406-2, Software College
Chief TA	Ruofeng Yang	wanshuiyin@sjtu.edu.cn	Thr 7-9 PM Rm 1119, Software College
TA	Zilong Wang	wangzilong@sjtu.edu.cn	Wed 7-9 PM Rm 1119, Software College
	Haitong Ma	mahaitong@sjtu.edu.cn	Fri 7-9 PM Online
	Letian Yang	moekid101@sjtu.edu.cn	Tue 7-9 PM Rm 1119, Software College

Course Information

Lecture times

• Thr 10:00-11:40 at Dong Xia Yuan 205

References

• UCL Course on RL by David Silver
• CS 285: Deep Reinforcement Learning by Sergey Levine at UC Berkeley
• CS234: Reinforcement Learning by Emma Brunskill at Stanford
• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Rich Sutton and Andew Barto

Schedule

week	date	topic	materials
1	Feb 20	1 Introduction	pdf
2	Feb 27	2 Markov Decision Process	pdf
3	Mar 6	3 Value Function Estimation	pdf
4	Mar 13
5	Mar 20	4 Model-free Control	pdf
6	Mar 27	5 Planning	pdf
7	Apr 3	6 Approximation	pdf
8	Apr 10	7 Deep Reinforcement Learning	pdf
9	Apr 17	8 Deep Policy Methods	pdf
10	Apr 24	9 Model-based Reinforcement Learning	pdf