What is a Markov Decision Process Anyways?

Learn about the model that is used in most reinforcement learning problems.

Nathan Lambert
Towards Data Science
5 min readMar 7, 2020

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Why should I care about a Markov Decision Process?

Anyone interested in the growth of reinforcement learning should know the model they’re built on — Markov Decision Processes. They set up the structure of a world with uncertainty in where actions will take you, and agents need to learn how to act.

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