Deep Reinforcement Learning
Goal In this week’s summary we introduce the basic concepts behind reinforcement learning and some ways it is applied in very controlled environments. Motivation Reinforcement learning methods recently experienced a hype through AlphaGo ranking next to the best human Go players. Furthermore the complexity of Go might ease the transfer of reinforcement learning to very large NLP tasks like dialog handling. Ingredients Markov Decision Process, exploration and exploitation, policy, Monte Carlo Tree Search, Q-Learning Steps Reinforcement Learning is usually applied to tasks, where an environment is partially observable and a certain action has to be taken. The influence on the state of the environment results in a backreaction in form of some reward. Any kind of game basically fits the […]