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The "Markov" in "Markov decision process" refers to the underlying structure of state transitions that still follow the Markov property. The process is called a "decision process" because it involves making decisions that influence these state transitions, extending the concept of a Markov chain into the realm of decision-making under uncertainty.
A Markov decision process is a Markov chain in which state transitions depend on the current state and an action vector that is applied to the system. Typically, a Markov decision process is used to compute a policy of actions that will maximize some utility with respect to expected rewards.
Discrete-time Markov decision processes (MDP) are planning problems with: durationless actions, nondeterministic actions with probabilities, full observability, maximization of a reward function, and a single agent. When full observability is replaced by partial observability, planning corresponds to a partially observable Markov decision ...
Figure 1. Probabilistic parameters of a hidden Markov model (example) X — states y — possible observations a — state transition probabilities b — output probabilities. In its discrete form, a hidden Markov process can be visualized as a generalization of the urn problem with replacement (where each item from the urn is returned to the original urn before the next step). [7]
This category is for articles about the theory of Markov chains and processes, and associated processes. See Category:Markov models for models for specific applications that make use of Markov processes.
The Markov-modulated Poisson process or MMPP where m Poisson processes are switched between by an underlying continuous-time Markov chain. [8] If each of the m Poisson processes has rate λ i and the modulating continuous-time Markov has m × m transition rate matrix R , then the MAP representation is
A partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) is a generalization of a Markov decision process (MDP). A POMDP models an agent decision process in which it is assumed that the system dynamics are determined by an MDP, but the agent cannot directly observe the underlying state.
A common object of study is the Markov measure, which is an extension of a Markov chain to the topology of the shift. A Markov chain is a pair ( P , π) consisting of the transition matrix , an n × n matrix P = ( p ij ) for which all p ij ≥ 0 and