Improved Quantum Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning Under a Generative Model
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arXiv:2608.02826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning is a subfield of machine learning that studies how an agent interacts with an environment in order to extract as large a reward as possible. A standard approach to study such interaction is through Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and the task of choosing an optimal policy --- a function that tells the agent which action to take. In this work, we study two types of MDPs --- finite-horizon and infinite-horizon discounted --- and propose new quantum algorithms for computing approximate optimal policies. Our quantum algorith
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- arXiv:2608.02826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning is a subfield of machine learning that studies how an agent interacts with an environment in order to extract as large a reward as possible.
- A standard approach to study such interaction is through Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and the task of choosing an optimal policy --- a function that tells the agent which action to take.
- In this work, we study two types of MDPs --- finite-horizon and infinite-horizon discounted --- and propose new quantum algorithms for computing approximate optimal policies.
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