Experimentation Strategies
• One extreme: Always choose action that looks best so far.
– What can potentially happen?
– Early bias towards positive reward experience
– Bias against exploration for even better reward
• Another extreme: Always choose actions randomly with
equal probability
– Ignores what it has learned à behavior remains random
• Want behavior between greedy and random extremes
• Simulated annealing ideas applicable here: Start with
random behavior to gather information, gradually become
greedy to improve performance.