Experimentation Strategies

• Common to use probabilistic approach to selecting actions
• Actions with higher are assigned higher probabilities, but every action has a non-zero probability
• is the probability of selecting action , given the agent is in state , where is the constant that determines how strongly the selection favors actions with high values
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• Sometimes is varied with the number of iterations so the agent favors exploration during the early stages of learning , then gradually shifts toward a strategy of exploitation.