Practice - Exploration vs Exploitation Trade-off
Practice Questions
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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.
What does exploitation refer to in reinforcement learning?
💡 Hint: Consider what an agent would do if it only wanted the best known reward.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is exploration in reinforcement learning?
💡 Hint: Consider what an agent does when faced with uncertainty.
True or False: Exploitation only focuses on known rewards.
💡 Hint: Think about what exploitation means in decision-making.
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Challenge Problems
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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.
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.
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