Reinforcement Learning

Learning through actions and rewards

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Updated 2 May 2025·Reviewed

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.

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