Questions tagged [dense-rewards]
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What are the pros and cons of sparse and dense rewards in reinforcement learning?
From what I understand, if the rewards are sparse the agent will have to explore more to get rewards and learn the optimal policy, whereas if the rewards are dense in time, the agent is quickly guided towards its learning goal.
Are the above…
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Is a reward given at every step or only given when the RL agent fails or succeeds?
In reinforcement learning, an agent can receive a positive reward for correct actions and a negative reward for wrong actions, but does the agent also receive rewards for every other step/action?
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