Pardon me if I am saying something stupid, but isn't Theano/Tensorflow
about deep learning and not reinforcement learning. RL can be done with
deep learning, but it's more than that, and I suspect that it requires a
different API, in particular with the notion of actions.

G

On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 03:29:18PM -0500, Sebastian Raschka wrote:
> You mean a scikit-like interface to Theano/Tensorflow? That’s actually what 
> skflow intends to do. 

> > On Mar 2, 2016, at 3:02 PM, Nadim Farhat <nadim.far...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I was just thinking the same but , how about just making pipelines to 
> > Theano ,  TensorFlow  ? 

> > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:00 PM Sebastian Raschka <se.rasc...@gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> > I am not a core developer and thus really can’t comment about the scope of 
> > scikit-learn here :P. But I am a curious about how to implement it in 
> > scikit-learn efficiently. I think an implementation based on Theano or 
> > TensorFlow may be a better place for such a module (maybe skflow, which has 
> > a scikit-like API https://github.com/tensorflow/skflow?)

> > > On Mar 2, 2016, at 2:21 PM, Michał Koziarski <michalkoziar...@gmail.com> 
> > > wrote:

> > > Hello everyone,

> > > As far as I can tell, except PyBrain (which doesn't seem to be actively 
> > > developed) there are no reinforcement learning libraries in Python. I was 
> > > wondering if community would be interested in using one and making it a 
> > > part of scikit-learn. Does it lie within the scope of the project?

> > > Very raw idea is, as follows:
> > > - to design common interface, similar to what is used in other parts of 
> > > scikit-sklearn;
> > > - to implement established RL algorithms, reliant heavily on estimators 
> > > available in scikit-learn;
> > > - and to prepare practical examples of what RL can be used for, to both 
> > > supplement documentation and encourage people not yet familiar with RL to 
> > > experiment with it in their own projects.

> > > Once again, I would mostly like to know whether it event lies within the 
> > > scope of the project, or if it just won't be added because of project 
> > > philosophy. Other than that, I would obviously appreciate any feedback.

> > > About me: I am a last master's CS student. My research interests involve 
> > > machine learning in general and reinforcement learning in particular; 
> > > this year I hope to start my PhD on the latter. My master's thesis 
> > > revolves around transfer learning in RL. I have experience with 
> > > programming in industry and on large projects.

> > > Cheers,
> > > Michał
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