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reinforcement learning

reinforcement learning noun: learning that occurs through reinforcement, especially through rewards, encouragement, or other consequences that strengthen desired behaviours.

Noun

reinforcement learning (uncountable)

  1. Learning that occurs through reinforcement, especially through rewards, encouragement, or other consequences that strengthen desired behaviours.
  2. (machine learning) A machine-learning paradigm in which a model or agent learns by taking actions and receiving reward signals that indicate how well those actions achieve a desired objective.
    • Reinforcement learning can be seen as somewhere between supervised and unsupervised learning. The learning system receives a feedback for its actions, but it is not provided with examples to learn from.2010, Lutz Frommberger, Qualitative Spatial Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 10
    • Let us look more deeply at reinforcement learning, to see what it means to learn from our own actions. Reinforcement learning is a field in which an agent learns by interacting with an environment.2022, Aske Plaat, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 3
    Synonyms:
    RL

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Questions about reinforcement learning

What does reinforcement learning mean?
Reinforcement learning means learning that occurs through reinforcement, especially through rewards, encouragement, or other consequences that strengthen desired behaviours.
What part of speech is reinforcement learning?
Reinforcement learning is a noun.

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