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Sequential Decision Process • Sequential Decision Process – A series of decisions are made, each resulting in a reward and a new situation. The history of the situations is used in making the decision.
Key Points of Interest 1. Is there a policy that a decision maker can use to choose actions that yields the maximum rewards available? 2. Can such a policy (if it exists) be computed in finite time (is it computationally feasible)? 3. Are there certain choices for optimality or structure for the basic model that significantly impact 1.) and 2.)?
Definitions S set of possible world states A set of possible actions R(s,a) real-valued reward function T description of each action’s effect in a state. T: SXA->Prob(S). Each state and action specifies a new (transition) probability distribution for the next state. π a policy mapping from S to A {dt(s)=a)}
How to evaluate a policy? • Expected total rewards – Leads to infinite values
• Set finite horizon – Somewhat arbitrary
• Discount rewards – Most studied and implemented – Gives weighting to earlier rewards – Interpretation in economics is clear and also can be used as a general stopping criteria.
