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Reinforcement Learning with TensorFlow
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Reinforcement Learning with TensorFlow

by Sayon Dutta
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
334 pages
10h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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The value function for optimality

Agents should be able to think about both immediate and future rewards. Therefore, a value is assigned to each encountered state that reflects this future information too. This is called value function. Here comes the concept of delayed rewards, where being at present what actions taken now will lead to potential rewards in future.

V(s), that is, value of the state is defined as the expected value of rewards to be received in future for all the actions taken from this state to subsequent states until the agent reaches the goal state. Basically, value functions tell us how good it is to be in this state. The higher the value, the better the state.

Rewards assigned to each (s,a,s') triple is fixed. This is ...

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