Reinforcement Learning for Finance

Reinforcement learning (RL) has led to several breakthroughs in AI. The use of the Q-learning (DQL) algorithm alone has helped people develop agents that play arcade games and board games at a superhuman level. More recently, RL, DQL, and similar methods have gained popularity in publications related to financial research. This book is among the first to explore the use of reinforcement learning methods in finance. Author Yves Hilpisch, founder and CEO of The Python Quants, provides the backgrou