Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto published Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, effectively standardizing the entire paradigm of machine learning driven by agent-environment interaction. They unified temporal-difference learning, dynamic programming, and Monte Carlo methods into a cohesive mathematical framework that became the core blueprint for future gaming and autonomous AI systems.
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