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Andrew Barto

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Professor Emeritus at University of Massachusetts Amherst

🇺🇸 American

Barto and Richard Sutton established many of the core ideas of modern reinforcement learning, where an agent improves through rewards from experience. Their algorithms and textbook connected psychology, control theory, and machine learning into a field that now underpins game-playing systems and robotics.

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Born1948
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 7, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26156,690147,770138,849Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
156,690citations as of Sep 1, '26+1,949 since Aug 1, '26
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