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 where you have needed to tradeoff between exploration and exploitation, as described in the text.
  2. In your opinion, what are the biggest
    1. advantage, and
    2. disadvantage
    of a model-free method like Q-learning? (Avoid the simple tautological response "the model-free method has no model." Duh.) Explain whether you feel the advantage(s) outweigh the disadvantage(s).
  3. Identify the sentence, section, or concept from the current reading that remains the most confusing to you. Carefully explain what you find confusing about it.