# Hugging Face — Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2022-08-05
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/deep-rl-ppo
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2168-proximal-policy-optimization-ppo
- Subject: Platform

This is an educational article explaining Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), a reinforcement learning algorithm, as part of a free course from Hugging Face. It covers the intuition behind PPO, the clipped surrogate objective function, and includes a coding tutorial using PyTorch.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/deep-rl-ppo:

> This article is part of the Deep Reinforcement Learning Class. A free course from beginner to expert.

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