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Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement learning is a subfield of AI/statistics focused on exploring/understanding complicated environments and learning how to optimally acquire rewards. Examples are AlphaGo, clinical trials & A/B tests, and Atari game playing.

92k subscribers193 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~1% by known bots)137 authors / mosince 2012

r/reinforcementlearning has 92k members (+29% over the last 12 months). It gets about 193 posts a month from 137 people. Top topics: Algorithmic Trading, LLMs and AGI Progress and OpenAI Updates.

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+29%in 12 months · +6.2% in 3 months · +1.2% in 1 month
Oct 202691k
Growing91k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+48%vs Sep 2025 · −8.0% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026193
BusierPeaked at 917 in Nov 2024
Sep 2026: incl. ~1% by known botsData through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/reinforcementlearning

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Algorithmic Trading0.5%
  2. LLMs and AGI Progress0.5%
  3. OpenAI Updates0.5%
  4. AI Research Papers0.3%
  5. Go Competitions0.2%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. arXiv.org e-Print archive
  2. Hugging Face
  3. Openai
  4. Medium
  5. Substack

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