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    Machine Learning Tutorial 0/98 lessons ~6 min read Lesson 72

    Reinforcement Learning

    What is Reinforcement Learning?

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    7 guided sections
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    Examples included
    Career prep
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    Introduction

    What is Reinforcement Learning? Agents learn policies by trial and error to maximize cumulative reward. Machine learning systems learn patterns from data instead of hard-coded rules.

    Understanding the topic

    How Reinforcement Learning works:

    • Agents learn policies by trial and error to maximize cumulative reward.
    • Prepare or explore data as needed.
    • Train or apply the model/technique.
    • Evaluate results and iterate.
    TermDescription
    Reinforcement LearningAgents learn policies by trial and error to maximize cumulative reward
    Training dataExamples used to learn patterns.
    FeaturesInput variables (columns) fed to the model.
    Target / labelWhat you predict (supervised learning).

    Step-by-step explanation

    1. Understand — Learn when and why to use Reinforcement Learning.
    2. Prepare data — Load, clean, and split datasets.
    3. Apply — Fit model or run algorithm in Python/sklearn.
    4. Evaluate — Measure accuracy, loss, or cluster quality.

    Execution workflow

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    Understand

    Learn when and why to use Reinforcement Learning.

    Best practices

    • Split data into train/validation/test before tuning.
    • Scale numeric features when algorithms are distance-based.
    • Always evaluate on held-out data — not training accuracy alone.

    Common mistakes

    • Training on test data (data leakage).
    • Ignoring class imbalance in classification metrics.
    • Using accuracy alone on imbalanced datasets.

    Summary

    Reinforcement Learning is a core machine learning topic. Agents learn policies by trial and error to maximize cumulative reward

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