A note on policy algorithms for discounted Markov decision problems

Michael K. Ng

doi:10.1016/S0167-6377(99)00051-6

A note on policy algorithms for discounted Markov decision problems

Michael K. Ng^*

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Department of Mathematics

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The evaluation phase in the policy iteration algorithm for the infinite horizon discounted Markov decision problem is presented, which can be done in O(mN²) operations, where N is the number of states of the Markov decision process and m is the number of states in which the decision changes during the policy improvement phase.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	195-197
Number of pages	3
Journal	Operations Research Letters
Volume	25
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-6377(99)00051-6
Publication status	Published - Nov 1999

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