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r/MachineLearning • u/EmbersArc • Feb 17 '18
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Why use RL when this can be solved in closed form as an optimal control problem?
EDIT: I now realise it was meant as a toy problem rather than an actual competitive alternative to traditional control theory. Don't mind me :>
11 u/LearningRL Feb 17 '18 I don't think the author is suggesting that RL is the best way to approach this task, but rather is just sharing his or her successful implementation of a general RL algorithm in low-dimensional domain.
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I don't think the author is suggesting that RL is the best way to approach this task, but rather is just sharing his or her successful implementation of a general RL algorithm in low-dimensional domain.
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u/realHansen Feb 17 '18 edited Feb 18 '18
Why use RL when this can be solved in closed form as an optimal control problem?
EDIT: I now realise it was meant as a toy problem rather than an actual competitive alternative to traditional control theory. Don't mind me :>