Understanding Reinforcement Learning — A Primer (opens in new tab)

Author(s): Ayo Akinkugbe Originally published on Towards AI. Understanding Reinforcement Learning — A Primer Photo by Girl with red hat on Unsplash Introduction: Learning by Trial and Error Imagine teaching a dog to fetch a ball. You don’t hand the dog a manual titled “The Complete Guide to Ball Retrieval.” Instead, you throw the ball, and when the dog brings it back, you give it a treat. When the dog gets distracted and wanders off, you withhold the treat. Over dozens of repetitions, the dog...