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Reinforcement Learning

Learning through actions and rewards

Short definition

A type of machine learning where an agent learns to make decisions by taking actions in an environment to maximise a reward.

Definition

Definition

A type of machine learning where an agent learns to make decisions by taking actions in an environment to maximise a reward. Reinforcement learning has been used to train AI agents to play complex games like Go and chess at superhuman levels.