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Reinforcement Learning: Is It for Me?

By Jos Martin, MathWorks


Reinforcement Learning - Is it for me?

You might be familiar with reinforcement learning as the AI responsible for beating human players in board games like Go and chess. But for businesses, reinforcement learning has the potential to do so much more.

Many engineers, scientists, and researchers want to take advantage of this new and growing technology, but simply don’t know where to start.

At its foundation, reinforcement learning is a type of machine learning that has the potential to solve tough decision-making problems. To help you understand how it impacts you, this article answers three key questions:

  • What is reinforcement learning, and why should I consider it when solving my problem?
  • When is reinforcement learning the right approach?
  • What is the workflow I should follow to solve my reinforcement learning problem?

This article was published in AI Business.

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Published 2020