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Reinforcement learning (RL) is a machine learning approach where an agent learns to make decisions by interacting with an environment, aiming to maximize cumulative rewards. The agent operates in a state space and uses methods like Q-learning and deep reinforcement learning to optimize its strategies. Despite its computational demands and data requirements, RL has been successfully applied in fields such as robotics, gaming, and autonomous vehicles.

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Reinforcement learning (RL) is a machine learning approach where an agent learns to make decisions by interacting with an environment, aiming to maximize cumulative rewards. The agent operates in a state space and uses methods like Q-learning and deep reinforcement learning to optimize its strategies. Despite its computational demands and data requirements, RL has been successfully applied in fields such as robotics, gaming, and autonomous vehicles.

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Reinforcement learning (RL) is a type of machine learning where an agent learns to

make decisions by interacting with an environment. The agent takes actions and
receives feedback in the form of rewards or penalties. The goal of reinforcement
learning is to maximize the cumulative reward over time by learning the optimal
strategy or policy for decision-making.

In RL, the agent operates in a state space, where each state represents a situation
or configuration of the environment. The agent can perform actions that transition
the environment from one state to another. After each action, the agent receives a
reward (positive or negative), which indicates how good or bad the action was.

The most popular method for solving RL problems is Q-learning, which involves
learning a value function that estimates the expected reward for each action in a
given state. The agent uses this value function to make decisions about which
actions to take. More advanced techniques like deep reinforcement learning combine
deep neural networks with reinforcement learning to handle complex environments,
such as video games or robotic control.

Reinforcement learning has been successfully applied to a variety of fields,


including robotics, gaming, and autonomous vehicles. For instance, RL has been used
in training agents to play games like chess or Go, where the agent learns optimal
strategies by competing against itself.

While RL shows great promise, it is computationally expensive and often requires


large amounts of data and time to train. However, its potential to solve complex
decision-making problems makes it one of the most exciting areas of machine
learning.

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