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Python Reinforcement Learning Projects
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Python Reinforcement Learning Projects

by Sean Saito, Yang Wenzhuo, Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
9h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Markov decision process (MDP)

A Markov decision process is a framework used to represent the environment of a reinforcement learning problem. It is a graphical model with directed edges (meaning that one node of the graph points to another node). Each node represents a possible state in the environment, and each edge pointing out of a state represents an action that can be taken in the given state. For example, consider the following MDP:

Figure 5: A sample Markov Decision Process

The preceding MDP represents what a typical day of a programmer could look like. Each circle represents a particular state the programmer can be in, where the blue ...

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