New Deep Reinforcement Learning Book Manuscript Completed
burkov · x · 2026-07-20
Burkov revealed that drafts for all 8 chapters of his new book, The Hundred-Page Deep Reinforcement Learning Book, are complete and will be released in August after volunteer reviewers finish their edits.
This will be the third book in The Hundred-Page Books series, covering RL basics, Policy Gradient, REINFORCE, Actor-Critic, GAE, PPO, Deep Q-Learning, and suggestions for further reading. The author also noted that the final chapter will include RLHF with PPO and RHVR with GRPO, topics missing from his previous language models book.
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