June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
546 pages
13h 30m
English
First of all, do we really need to iterate over every state in the state space? We have an environment that can be used as a source of real-life samples of states. If some state in the state space is not shown to us by the environment, why should we care about its value? We can use states obtained from the environment to update values of states, which can save us lots of work.
This modification of the Value iteration method is known as Q-learning, as mentioned earlier, and for cases with explicit state-to-value mappings, has the following steps: