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.

Introduction What is Q-learning? Q-learning is a type of reinforcement learning algorithm that teaches agents how to act in a given environment to maximise rewards over time.

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 ...