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Published inJun 2018
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Sudharsan Ravichandiran
Sudharsan Ravichandiran
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Sudharsan Ravichandiran is a data scientist and artificial intelligence enthusiast. He holds a Bachelors in Information Technology from Anna University. His area of research focuses on practical implementations of deep learning and reinforcement learning including natural language processing and computer vision. He is an open-source contributor and loves answering questions on Stack Overflow.
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Chapter 3

  1. The Markov property states that the future depends only on the present and not on the past.
  2. MDP is an extension of the Markov chain. It provides a mathematical framework for modeling decision-making situations. Almost all RL problems can be modeled as MDP.
  3. Refer section Discount factor.
  4. The discount factor decides how much importance we give to the future rewards and immediate rewards.
  5. We use Bellman function for solving the MDP.
  6. Refer section Deriving the Bellman equation for value and Q functions.
  7. Value function specifies goodness of a state and Q function specifies goodness of an action in that state.
  8. Refer section Value iteration and Policy iteration.

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Sudharsan Ravichandiran

Sudharsan Ravichandiran is a data scientist and artificial intelligence enthusiast. He holds a Bachelors in Information Technology from Anna University. His area of research focuses on practical implementations of deep learning and reinforcement learning including natural language processing and computer vision. He is an open-source contributor and loves answering questions on Stack Overflow.
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