Volume 4 of 4 · PDF and notebooks
Applications, Evaluation, and Reliable Deployment
Evaluate world models in applications and under distribution shift, then design deployment safeguards around the failures a planner can exploit.
18 chapters · 713 pages · Perpetual updates
What you will learn
- Match evaluation evidence to an application's decision requirements.
- Diagnose uncertainty, interpretability, and model-exploitation failures.
- Design infrastructure, safety controls, and sim-to-real validation.
Before you start
Familiarity with model-based planning and evaluation. Read Volume 3 for the systems and planning methods used in the examples.
Own Volume 4
$29 once. The PDF and companion notebook ZIP are yours to download, with every future update to this volume included.
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Included chapters
All chapters remain free to read online.
Part X: Application Domains
Part XI: Evaluation and Understanding
Version history
Kept current, not frozen in time
Library access includes every future volume and update. When a volume changes, its updated PDF appears in My books at no extra cost.
Current release
Edition 2026.10.0
First edition: 72 chapters across four standalone volume PDFs, with executable companion notebooks and perpetual updates.
Author and edition details
About the author and this edition
Michael Brenndoerfer
Michael has spent more than a decade working across software engineering, data, AI, and business. He writes to understand difficult ideas more deeply and to share what he learns in a clear, practical way.
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