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Reinforcement Learning

A learning approach where an agent learns by interacting with an environment and receiving rewards or penalties.

Definition

A learning approach where an agent learns by interacting with an environment and receiving rewards or penalties. It discovers optimal strategies through trial and error. How AlphaGo mastered Go, how robots learn to walk, and a key ingredient in training language models through RLHF.

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RLHF

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback.

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