Reinforcement learning
Reinforcement learning is a branch of machine learning that deals with creating AI "agents" that perform a set of possible actions in a given environment in order to maximize a reward. While the other two branches of machine learning—supervised and unsupervised machine learning—usually perform learning on a dataset in the format of a table, reinforcement learning agents mostly learn using a decision tree to be made in any given situation such that the decision tree eventually leads to the leaf that has the maximum reward.
For example, consider a humanoid robot that wishes to learn to walk. It could first start by shoving both of its legs in front of itself, in which case it would fall, and the reward, which, in this ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access