Reinforcement Learning: SARSA and Q-Learning — Part 3
Last Updated on November 6, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Tan Pengshi Alvin
Originally published on Towards AI.
Introducing the Temporal Difference family of iterative techniques to solve the Markov Decision Process
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In the previous article — Part 2 — we discovered a few solution algorithms to solve the Markov Decision Process (MDP), namely the Dynamic Programming method and the Monte Carlo method. The Dynamic Programming approach can be easily applied when we know the entire environmental dynamics of the MDP, such as the Transitional Probabilities between all states (conditioned on actions). However, such assumptions may not be practical, especially when we consider real-world applications, when stochastic relationships between states and actions are often vague.
Without knowledge of Transitional Probabilities, we then introduced the experiential learning with the… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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