Some people like itnice, quick and cheap:
Reinforcement Learning for debt collection
Jorge Davila-ChaconData Scientist
Mindspace Data Science Meetup September 2016
10 min
What is RL?
10 min
What can RL do?
5 min
Learning to persuade
5 min
Take away
What is RL?
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Artificial Intelligence
The nerdy definition:
Flexible rational agent that perceives its environment and takes
actions that maximize its chance of success at an arbitrary
goal.
- S. Russell and P. Norvig
Artificial Intelligence
The simple definition:
Machine able to perform tasks normally requiring human
intelligence, such as:
Perceiving, planning and decision-making.
Machine Learning
Data
Program
Output
Data
Output
ProgramTraditionalMachine Learning
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Perception-Action Loop
Reference: Sutton and Barto. Introduction to Reinforcement
Learning.1998
https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/ebook/the-book.html
Exploration vs Exploitation
Continuous Adaptation
What can RL do?
Learning to Fly
Learning to Walk
Learning to Play
Learning to Fly
Reference: Abbeel et al. An Application of Reinforcement
Learning to Aerobatic Helicopter Flight. NIPS, 2007.
Learning to Walk
Reference: Kolter et al. Hierarchical Apprenticeship Learning
with Application to Quadruped Locomotion. NIPS, 2007.
Learning to Play
Reference: V. Mnih et al. Human-level control through deep
reinforcement learning. Nature, 2015.
Learning to Play
Learning to Play
Learning to persuade
Be nice
Be quick
Be cheap
Be nice
Be quick
Q-Values
Recommended Times
Be cheap
Take away
All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Wrap Up
Learn from interaction
Learn fast
Learn continuously
Take Away
AI is more than just statsIts a lesson from nature
Be careful with technology hypesBut dont be afraid if you see
someone fail
Unleash the beast!Sprinkling your business with AI might not be
enough
Danke fr eure Aufmerksamkeit!
Jorge Davila-Chacon
Data Scientist
collect.ai
