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Why does Monte Carlo policy evaluation relies on action-value function rather than state-value function?
Here is David Silver's lecture on that. Look at 9:30 to 10:30.
He says that, since it is model-free learning, the environment's dynamics are unknown, so the action-value function $Q$ is used.
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