# Questions tagged [transition-model]

For questions related to the transition model of a Markov decision process or other Markov models. This term is often used in reinforcement learning (RL) to distinguish between model-based and model-free RL algorithms, where model-based algorithms use the transition model while model-free don't use it.

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### Can the state transition function be dynamic in reinforcement learning?

In general, there are two types of transition functions in reinforcement learning. Mathematically, they are as follows #1: Stochastic state transition function: T : S \times A \times S \rightarrow [...
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### Is it appropriate to represent 'total failure' as an absorbing state?

My understanding is that, in Markov decision processes, absorbing state are states which can transition only to themselves and that these transitions generate rewards of 0. I know that absorbing ...
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### What is the difference between a distribution model and a sampling model in Reinforcement Learning?

The book from Sutton and Barto, Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, define a model in Reinforcement Learning as something that mimics the behavior of the environment, or more generally, that ...
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### How can we find the value function by solving a system of linear equations without knowing the policy?

An MDP is a Markov Reward Process with decisions, it’s an environment in which all states are Markov. This is what we want to solve. An MDP is a tuple $(S, A, P, R, \gamma)$, where $S$ is our state ...
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### How should I implement the state transition when it is a Gaussian distribution?

I am reading this paper Anxiety, Avoidance and Sequential Evaluation and is confused about the implementation of a specific lab study. Namely, the authors model what is called the Balloon task using a ...
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### Does "transition model" alone in an MDP imply it's non-deterministic?

I am looking at a lecture on POMDP, and the context is that, when the quadcopter can't see the landmarks, it has to use reckoning. And then he mentions the transition model is not deterministic, hence ...
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### If the current state is $S_t$ and the actions are chosen according to $\pi$, what is the expectation of $R_{t+1}$ in terms of $\pi$ and $p$?

I'm trying to solve exercise 3.11 from the book Sutton and Barto's book (2nd edition) Exercise 3.11 If the current state is $S_t$ , and actions are selected according to a stochastic policy $\pi$, ...
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