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9.8 - Exploration vs Exploitation Trade-off

Learning

Practice Questions

Test your understanding with targeted questions related to the topic.

Question 1

Easy

Define exploration in the context of reinforcement learning.

💡 Hint: Think about why an agent would want to try something new instead of sticking to what it knows.

Question 2

Easy

What does exploitation refer to in reinforcement learning?

💡 Hint: Consider what an agent would do if it only wanted the best known reward.

Practice 4 more questions and get performance evaluation

Interactive Quizzes

Engage in quick quizzes to reinforce what you've learned and check your comprehension.

Question 1

What is exploration in reinforcement learning?

  • Sticking to known actions
  • Trying new actions to gather information
  • Ignoring both

💡 Hint: Consider what an agent does when faced with uncertainty.

Question 2

True or False: Exploitation only focuses on known rewards.

  • True
  • False

💡 Hint: Think about what exploitation means in decision-making.

Solve 2 more questions and get performance evaluation

Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

Design an experiment where you use both exploration and exploitation in an online advertising context. How would you implement ε-greedy and UCB?

💡 Hint: Consider how each strategy can benefit overall advertisement effectiveness.

Question 2

If you were to choose a single strategy among those discussed—UCB or Thompson Sampling—for a retail recommendation system, which would you choose and why?

💡 Hint: Think about how quickly businesses must adapt to changing consumer behavior.

Challenge and get performance evaluation