Distributional Reinforcement Learning


Draft (under submission)

Marc G. Bellemare and Will Dabney and Mark Rowland


This textbook aims to provide an introduction to the developing field of distributional reinforcement learning. The version provided below is a draft, currently under review at MIT Press.


The draft is licensed under a Creative Commons license, see terms and conditions for details.

We are grateful to all the people who helped make this book a reality – a full list will be provided in the final version of the book.

Distributional Reinforcement Learning


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To cite this book, please use this bibtex entry:
@book{bdr2022,
    title={Distributional Reinforcement Learning},
    author={Marc G. Bellemare and Will Dabney and Mark Rowland},
    publisher={MIT Press},
    note={\url{http://www.distributional-rl.org}},
    year={2023}
}