Since the news of Q* broke, many researchers outside OpenAI have speculated about whether the name is a reference to other existing techniques within the field, such as Q-learning, a technique for ...

OpenAI Qstar algorithm Watch this video on YouTube. What makes the Q* algorithm particularly powerful is its combination of Q-learning with advanced pathfinding techniques.

A* is also fairly old- it’s a heuristic-based path finding algorithm. In typical engineering fashion, they may have found an intersection of the 2 and named it Q*. This is total speculation, but if ...

We propose for risk-sensitive control of finite Markov chains a counterpart of the popular Q-learning algorithm for classical Markov decision processes. The algorithm is shown to converge with ...

Q-learning is a model-free, value-based, off-policy algorithm for reinforcement learning that will find the best series of actions based on the current state. The “Q” stands for quality.