Acceleration Operators in the Value Iteration Algorithms for Average Reward Markov Decision Processes

dc.creatorShlakhter, Oleksandr
dc.creatorLee, Chi-Guhn
dc.date2008-06-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:42:14Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:42:14Z
dc.descriptionOne of the most widely used methods for solving average cost MDP problems is the value iteration method. This method, however, is often computationally impractical and restricted in size of solvable MDP problems. We propose acceleration operators that improve the performance of the value iteration for average reward MDP models. These operators are based on two important properties of Markovian operator: contraction mapping and monotonicity. It is well known that the classical relative value iteration methods for average cost criteria MDP do not involve the max-norm contraction or monotonicity property. To overcome this difficulty we propose to combine acceleration operators with variants of value iteration for stochastic shortest path problems associated average reward problems.
dc.description34 pages, 3 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0320
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0320
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/162110
dc.subjectOptimization and Control
dc.titleAcceleration Operators in the Value Iteration Algorithms for Average Reward Markov Decision Processes
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