Active Reinforcement Learning

CSC 261 - Artificial Intelligence - Weinman



Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal.
  1. Describe a situation from your own experience when you have needed to tradeoff between exploration and exploitation, as described in the text.
  2. Select the sentence or short passage (no more than three sentences) from today's reading that you feel best distinguishes between a passive ADP agent and an active ADP learning agent. Briefly explain your selection.
  3. In your opinion, what are the biggest
    1. advantage, and
    2. disadvantage
    of a model-free method like Q-learning? Explain whether you feel the advantage(s) outweigh the disadvantage(s).