Seven Exploration Strategies In Reinforcement Learning You Should Know

Pure exploration and -exploitation, ϵ-greedy, Boltzmann exploration, optimistic initialization, confidence intervals, knowledge gradients

Wouter van Heeswijk, PhD
Towards Data Science
9 min readJun 23, 2022

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The exploration-exploitation dilemma is omnipresent in everyday life. Once you found a restaurant you like, you might…

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Assistant professor in Financial Engineering and Operations Research. Writing about reinforcement learning, optimization problems, and data science.