A model is an agent's representation of the environment. It is similar to the mental models we have about people and things around us. An agent uses its model of the environment to predict what will happen next. There are two key pieces to it:
: The state transition model/probability
: The reward modelThe state transition model 
is a probability distribution or a function that predicts the probability of ending up in a state in the next ...
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