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Everything you need to know about model-free and model-based reinforcement learning

Reinforcement learning is one of the exciting branches of artificial intelligence. It plays an important role in game-playing AI systems, modern robots, chip-design systems, and other applications.

Ping pong robot uses agentic AI to beat expert human players

Scientists at Sony AI have developed a table tennis robot with enough speed and precision to beat even some expert ping pong players in the latest matchup between biological and artificial ...

AI World Models: What Are They And Why Should You Care

World models are getting substantial funding. What is a world model, how does it compare to a large language model, and what ...
Semiconductor Engineering

DeepSeek: Improving Language Model Reasoning Capabilities Using Pure Reinforcement Learning

“We introduce our first-generation reasoning models, DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1. DeepSeek-R1-Zero, a model trained via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) without supervised fine-tuning (SFT ...
NextBigFuture

Reinforcement Learning Does NOT Fundamentally Improve AI Models

Reinforcement Learning does NOT make the base model more intelligent and limits the world of the base model in exchange for early pass performances. Graphs show that after pass 1000 the reasoning ...
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What Is Reinforcement Learning? Here’s All You Need to Know

Reinforcement learning is a subfield of machine learning concerned with how an intelligent agent can learn through trial and error to make optimal decisions in its ...
International Monetary Fund

AI and Macroeconomic Modeling: Deep Reinforcement Learning in an RBC model

This study seeks to construct a basic reinforcement learning-based AI-macroeconomic simulator. We use a deep RL (DRL) approach (DDPG) in an RBC macroeconomic model. We set up two learning scenarios, ...