Answers.Body: <p><a href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF00992698.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This</a> is the original Q-Learning paper by Watkins, though you may need to pay for access to this.</p>
  <p><a href="https://www.datascienceassn.org/sites/default/files/Human-level%20Control%20Through%20Deep%20Reinforcement%20Learning.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This</a> is the Nature paper that introduced the DQN.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I tried searching a lot, but I could neither find the paper that introduced Q-Learning nor the paper that introduced Deep Q Learning. If anyone knows anything about it please do tell me.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: It's very strange that you didn't find the papers that introduced Q-learning and DQN. You just needed to type "Deep Q-learning paper" on Google to find it immediately as the first returned search result.
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Comments.Text: Yes, I agree it is strange. I didn't find the original Q learning or DQN paper at all. I found a few papers introducing modifications/applications to these algorithms but not the absolute original one.
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Title: Where can I find the original conference paper that introduced Q-learning and Deep Q-Learning?
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ThreadText: # Where can I find the original conference paper that introduced Q-learning and Deep Q-Learning?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-07-13)
  
  I tried searching a lot, but I could neither find the paper that introduced Q-Learning nor the paper that introduced Deep Q Learning. If anyone knows anything about it please do tell me.
  
  **Tags:** reinforcement-learning, q-learning, reference-request, deep-rl, dqn
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  > **username_1**: It's very strange that you didn't find the papers that introduced Q-learning and DQN. You just needed to type "Deep Q-learning paper" on Google to find it immediately as the first returned search result.  
  > **username_0**: Yes, I agree it is strange. I didn't find the original Q learning or DQN paper at all. I found a few papers introducing modifications/applications to these algorithms but not the absolute original one.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2021-07-13. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  [This](https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF00992698.pdf) is the original Q-Learning paper by Watkins, though you may need to pay for access to this.
  
  [This](https://www.datascienceassn.org/sites/default/files/Human-level%20Control%20Through%20Deep%20Reinforcement%20Learning.pdf) is the Nature paper that introduced the DQN.
  
  
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