Active Reinforcement Learning

CSC 261 - Weinman

Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal.

1. Describe a situation from your own experience when you have needed to tradeoff between exploration and exploitation, as described in the text.
2. Select the sentence or short passage (no more than three sentences) from today's reading that you feel best distinguishes between a passive ADP agent and an active ADP agent. Briefly explain your selection.
3. What are the biggest advantage and disadvantage of a model-free method like Q-learning? Explain whether you feel the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.