Mind · Strategy
ExploreExploit
Balancing information gathering vs value extraction
Definition
Mechanism
Adaptive Allocation: Early in process, favor exploration (try new options, gather info). As deadline approaches, shift to exploitation (use best known option). Uncertainty reduction value decreases over time. Upper Confidence Bound: pick option with highest (estimate + uncertainty bonus). It monitors the remaining Budget to dynamically adjust the epsilon parameter from exploration to exploitation.
Invariants
- Threshold immutable during execution.
Risks
Failure modes
Environment drift
The environment changes during the Exploit phase, making the best option obsolete.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Infrastructure
Resource allocation limit
Used by
References
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Reference
Parameters
decay_rateFloat, [0.9, 0.999]- Epsilon decay per iteration
epsilonFloat, [0.0, 1.0]- Exploration probability