Practice Policy-based Reinforce (3.3) - Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making
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Policy-Based REINFORCE

Practice - Policy-Based REINFORCE

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What does REINFORCE stand for in the context of reinforcement learning?

💡 Hint: Think about how the algorithm improves agent decisions.

Question 2 Easy

Describe what a policy is in reinforcement learning.

💡 Hint: Think about how players decide their moves in a game.

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Question 1

What is the primary objective of the REINFORCE algorithm?

Maximize expected rewards
Minimize variance
Estimate action values

💡 Hint: Consider what drives the algorithm's updates.

Question 2

True or False: REINFORCE learns action values directly rather than optimizing the policy.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about the differences between the two methods.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Design an experiment to test the efficiency of the REINFORCE algorithm compared to a value-based method in a simulated environment.

💡 Hint: Consider how you can control variables to ensure a fair comparison.

Challenge 2 Hard

Discuss strategies to overcome the high variance challenge in REINFORCE and suggest ways to implement them in practice.

💡 Hint: Think about how heavy fluctuations can be smoothed out.

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