AI Glossary/Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning

Machine learning where an agent learns to make decisions by taking actions and receiving rewards or penalties.

In-depth explanation

In RL, an agent interacts with an environment, observing states, taking actions, and receiving rewards. The goal is to learn a policy that maximizes cumulative reward. Key concepts include exploration vs exploitation, value functions, and policy gradients. RL has achieved superhuman performance in games and is applied to robotics, recommendation, and more.

Examples

AlphaGo
Game-playing AI
Robotics control

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