Deep Reinforcement Learning
Free Advanced course · 10 lessons · 4 weeks · Certificate on completion
Train DQN, PPO and actor-critic agents and learn why RL is hard to get stable. Across 10 lessons you'll move from fundamentals to a portfolio-ready outcome — at your own pace, with quizzes after each lesson and a final exam to certify your mastery.
What you'll learn
- From tables to neural policies
- Deep Q-Networks and replay buffers
- Double, dueling and prioritised DQN
- Policy gradients and REINFORCE
- Actor-critic and A2C
- PPO in detail
Skills you'll pick up
- From tables to neural policies
- Deep Q-Networks and replay buf
- Double, dueling and prioritise
- Policy gradients and REINFORCE
- Actor-critic and A2C
- PPO in detail
Tools covered
- Deep RL
- Real-world projects
- Quizzes
- Final exam
Course modules
Module 1: From tables to neural policies
Module 1 of Deep Reinforcement Learning. 3 lessons · 3h
Module 2: Policy gradients and REINFORCE
Module 2 of Deep Reinforcement Learning. 3 lessons · 3h
Module 3: Continuous control with SAC
Module 3 of Deep Reinforcement Learning. 2 lessons · 2h
Module 4: Reproducibility and seeds
Module 4 of Deep Reinforcement Learning. 2 lessons · 2h
Lessons in this course
- From tables to neural policies
- Deep Q-Networks and replay buffers
- Double, dueling and prioritised DQN
- Policy gradients and REINFORCE
- Actor-critic and A2C
- PPO in detail
- Continuous control with SAC
- Reward shaping pitfalls
- Reproducibility and seeds
- Where deep RL is used in industry
Instructor
Elena Sokolova — Applied ML Researcher
Elena Sokolova is a Applied ML Researcher with years of hands-on experience teaching Deep RL to thousands of learners worldwide.
Certificate
Finish every lesson and pass the final exam to earn a free, verifiable Learnera certificate for Deep Reinforcement Learning. It can be downloaded as a PDF and shared on LinkedIn.
Career outcomes
Median global salary $170,000 per year · median India salary ₹23,80,000 per year · 39,099 open roles worldwide
- Deep RL Specialist
- Senior Deep RL Lead
- Deep RL Consultant
Frequently asked questions
Is the Deep Reinforcement Learning course free?
Yes. Every Learnera course, including Deep Reinforcement Learning, is completely free — lessons, quizzes, the final exam, and the certificate.
How long does Deep Reinforcement Learning take?
10 lessons, typically completed in 4 weeks at a comfortable pace.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes — pass the final exam and you receive a free, verifiable certificate you can share on LinkedIn.