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Maxim Lapan
Maxim Lapan
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Maxim Lapan

Maxim has been working as a software developer for more than 20 years and was involved in various areas: distributed scientific computing, distributed systems and big data processing. Since 2014 he is actively using machine and deep learning to solve practical industrial tasks, such as NLP problems, RL for web crawling and web pages analysis. He has been living in Germany with his family.
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Human demonstrations

The idea behind demonstrations is simple: to help our agent to discover the best way to solve the task, we show it some examples of actions that we think are required for the problem. Those examples could be not the best solution or not 100% accurate, but they should be good enough to show the agent promising directions to explore.

In fact, this is a very natural thing to do, as all human learning is based on some prior examples given by a teacher in class, parents, or other people. Those examples could be in a written form (for example, recipe books) or given as demonstrations that you need to repeat several times to get right (for example, dance classes). Such forms of training are much more effective than random searches. Just imagine how complicated and lengthy it would be to learn how to clean your teeth by trial and error alone. Of course, there is a danger from learning how to follow demonstrations, which could be wrong or not the most efficient way to...

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Maxim Lapan

Maxim has been working as a software developer for more than 20 years and was involved in various areas: distributed scientific computing, distributed systems and big data processing. Since 2014 he is actively using machine and deep learning to solve practical industrial tasks, such as NLP problems, RL for web crawling and web pages analysis. He has been living in Germany with his family.
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