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Published inMar 2018
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Md. Rezaul Karim
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Md. Rezaul Karim

Md. Rezaul Karim is a researcher, author, and data science enthusiast with a strong computer science background, coupled with 10 years of research and development experience in machine learning, deep learning, and data mining algorithms to solve emerging bioinformatics research problems by making them explainable. He is passionate about applied machine learning, knowledge graphs, and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). Currently, he is working as a research scientist at Fraunhofer FIT, Germany. He is also a PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Before joining FIT, he worked as a researcher at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland. Previously, he worked as a lead software engineer at Samsung Electronics, Korea.
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Reinforcement Learning in Predictive Analytics


Figure 1 shows a person making decisions to arrive at their destination. Moreover, suppose on your drive from home to work you always choose the same route. But one day your curiosity takes over and you decide to try a different path in hopes for a shorter commute. This dilemma of trying out new routes or sticking to the best-known route is an example of exploration versus exploitation:

Figure 1: An agent always try to reach the destination passing through route

Reinforcement learning techniques are being used in many areas. A general idea that is being pursued right now is creating an algorithm that doesn't need anything apart from a description of its task. When this kind of performance is achieved, it will be applied virtually everywhere.

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Md. Rezaul Karim

Md. Rezaul Karim is a researcher, author, and data science enthusiast with a strong computer science background, coupled with 10 years of research and development experience in machine learning, deep learning, and data mining algorithms to solve emerging bioinformatics research problems by making them explainable. He is passionate about applied machine learning, knowledge graphs, and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). Currently, he is working as a research scientist at Fraunhofer FIT, Germany. He is also a PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Before joining FIT, he worked as a researcher at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland. Previously, he worked as a lead software engineer at Samsung Electronics, Korea.
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