Factored Value Iteration Converges

dc.creatorSzita, Istvan
dc.creatorLorincz, Andras
dc.date2008-01-14
dc.date2008-08-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:56:07Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:56:07Z
dc.descriptionIn this paper we propose a novel algorithm, factored value iteration (FVI), for the approximate solution of factored Markov decision processes (fMDPs). The traditional approximate value iteration algorithm is modified in two ways. For one, the least-squares projection operator is modified so that it does not increase max-norm, and thus preserves convergence. The other modification is that we uniformly sample polynomially many samples from the (exponentially large) state space. This way, the complexity of our algorithm becomes polynomial in the size of the fMDP description length. We prove that the algorithm is convergent. We also derive an upper bound on the difference between our approximate solution and the optimal one, and also on the error introduced by sampling. We analyze various projection operators with respect to their computation complexity and their convergence when combined with approximate value iteration.
dc.description17 pages, 1 figure
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2069
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2069
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/166866
dc.subjectArtificial Intelligence
dc.subjectMachine Learning
dc.titleFactored Value Iteration Converges
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