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DeepMind RL theorist Csaba Szepesvari argues reinforcement learning defines a class of problems rather than a set of algorithms

He compared skepticism of the field to rejecting sorting.

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Csaba Szepesvari@CsabaSzepesvari#406inAI

@yoavgo @redtachyon LOL, this is like saying "I don't believe in sorting" (again, RL is not a set of algorithms; it is a set of problems)

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@CsabaSzepesvari @redtachyon i do believe in the problems

Csaba Szepesvari@CsabaSzepesvari

@yoavgo @redtachyon LOL, this is like saying "I don't believe in sorting" (again, RL is not a set of algorithms; it is a set of problems)

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