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Ex­plore-ex­ploit tradeoff

TagLast edit: 5 Apr 2023 20:41 UTC by Pablo

The explore-exploit tradeoff (or exploration-exploitation trade-off) is the choice between seeking new information (“explore”) and acting on the information already available (“exploit”).

Further reading

Conceptually (2018) Explore-exploit tradeoff, Conceptually.

Kuhn, Ben (2013) Exploration and exploitation, Ben Kuhn’s Blog, June.

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