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I was doing studies in reinforcement learning and trying to apply it in Computerised Adaptive Testing (CAT). While learning IRT, I felt it is similar to behaviour of RL setting - receiving feedback and adjusting parameters(or learning) in each cycle.

Is Item Response Theory (IRT) a form of reinforcement learning? Can I know the differences if any.

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  • Can you elaborate on this any? We prefer threads that don't amount to just "Yes", or "No". Is there something confusing you about these? How did this question arise? Etc. – gung - Reinstate Monica Feb 18 '18 at 12:37
  • I was doing some studies in reinforcement learning and trying to apply it in Computerised Adaptive Testing(CAT). While learning IRT, I felt it is similar to behaviour of RL setting - Learning and adjusting parameters in each cycle. – Aljo Jose Feb 18 '18 at 12:56
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    More [active learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_learning_(machine_learning)) I suggest. But if you expand on your analogy it will be easier to say how CAT and RL might be usefully related. – conjugateprior Feb 18 '18 at 16:18

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