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Reinforcement Learning · Quiz 1 · 26 Oct 2025 · September 2025 term

Reinforcement Learning Quiz 1 26 Oct 2025 — Question 11

Question 11

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Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

  1. A

    It determines the penalty for rebooting or migrating the VM.

  2. B

    It is used to predict the expected reward for each possible waiting time,allowing the algorithm to personalize decisions for each failure event.

  3. C

    It is ignored by LinUCB, which only uses past rewards.

  4. D

    It is used to randomly select an action to ensure exploration.

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  • B

    It is used to predict the expected reward for each possible waiting time,allowing the algorithm to personalize decisions for each failure event.

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Question 11 of 16 in the IIT Madras BS Reinforcement Learning (Reinforcement Learning) Quiz 1 paper sat on 26 Oct 2025, in the September 2025 term (IIT M DEGREE AN EXAM QDB2 26 Oct 2025). It carries 4 marks.

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