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    Reinforcement learning· book· 1998

    Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

    Richard S. Sutton (first author) · 1998

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    DOI 10.1109/tnn.1998.712192OpenAlex W4214717370

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    Why it matters

    Canonical textbook unifying value functions, TD learning, exploration, control, and planning.

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    The record

    First released
    1998 (from Crossref)
    Citations
    27,221 citations, as counted by OpenAlex (CC0)
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    both expert lists

    Editor's notes

    • Classed as book: Sutton and Barto's MIT Press textbook. Split from a pool record that merged three MIT Press books under a misparsed id (PR #1 review). (AI draft (Claude), not yet reviewed, 2026-10-30)

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