[computer-go] learning algorithms such as TD(lambda)- state of the art

[Rémi Coulom]

Carter Cheng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been leafing through a book "Reinforcement Learning" by Sutton and Barto. The book seems to serve as a decent introductory text to some of the issues which are mentioned in parts of Sylvain Gelly's thesis. 
>
> The book however, is a decade old and I curious if there are resources which discuss updates and more recent results in this and related fields where you are exploring a state space through sampling methods. I am not sure if any readers of the mailing list have looked at this- but other than the journal Machine Learning are there other good journals which explore this material in a probablistic/statistical framework?
>
> Thank again,
>
> Carter.

This does not really answer your question about journals, but Richard 
Sutton and Martin Müller currently supervise the PhD thesis of David 
Silver. Here are their recent publications:
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~silver/research/publications/publications.html

Rémi