[romesc]

Sure A* is awesome, but taking the "star" and immediately attributing it to A* is probably a bridge too far.

Q* or any X* for that matter is extremely common for referring to the optimal function under certain assumptions. (usually cost / reward structure).

[tunesmith]

Yeah I just saw the video from that researcher (later an OpenAI researcher?) that talked about it back in 2016... not that I understood much, but it definitely seemed that Q* was a generalization of the Q algorithm described on the previous slide. The optimum something across all somethings.

[resource0x]

LeCun: Please ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*. https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1728126868342145481

[zaptrem]

As someone with a borderline acceptable understanding of RL this is the most accurate take so far.

[maaaaattttt]

If you have the possibility I would be quite interested in a link to the video or alternatively the name of the researcher you mention.

[andrew3726]

It's Noam Brown, he worked at Meta AI before on Cicero and No-hands Poker before that.