RL

plural RLs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of rugby league.
2. InternetabbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of real life.

   I may become quite intimate with someone, spend hours with em every night, and yet not have the slightest idea what eir voice sounds like, or what eir RL body looks, feels, and smells like.

   1997, Steven Shaviro, Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism, London: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 138

3. abbreviationcountableinitialismpluralplural onlyuncountableInitialism of royal letters.
4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemachine learningInitialism of reinforcement learning.

   This requires keeping track of many RL algorithms and architectures, which are used as part of the state space. By contrast, our approach only focuses on training a single RL architecture, taking advantage of MCTS search and powerful state representations.

   2023 June 28, Daniel J. Mankowitz, Andrea Michi, Anton Zhernov, Marco Gelmi, Marco Selvi, “Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning”, in Nature, volume 618, number 7964, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 257–263

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   But Richard Sutton’s textbook led [David] Silver in deeper, describing the algorithms that a programmer might deploy to make RL a reality. If computers could be trained to understand the world by interacting with it directly, they could learn what to do in any given situation, effectively programming themselves.

   2026, Sebastian Mallaby, “The Jedi”, in The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence, Penguin, →ISBN