Q-learning is a type of reinforcement learning algorithm that teaches agents how to act in a given environment to maximise rewards over time. It uses a simple but powerful idea: learn from ...

Since the news of Q* broke, many researchers outside OpenAI have speculated about whether the name is a reference to other existing techniques within the field, such as Q-learning, a technique for ...

A* is also fairly old- it’s a heuristic-based path finding algorithm. In typical engineering fashion, they may have found an intersection of the 2 and named it Q*. This is total speculation, but if ...

A special category of algorithms, machine learning algorithms, try to “learn” based on a set of past decision-making examples.