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Theoretical Aspects of Reinforcement Learning: A Special Issue of AMOP

Sep 2026 · Applied Mathematics and Optimization · Vol 94 · 0 citations

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This work states that there has been an upsurge of interest and development of RL theory and applications in the communities of stochastic control, stochastic analysis and unsupervised learning.

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