Trading Performance for Stability in Markov Decision Processes

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Authors

BRÁZDIL Tomáš CHATTERJEE Krishnendu FOREJT Vojtěch KUČERA Antonín

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Proceedings of 28th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2013)
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Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LICS.2013.39
Field Informatics
Keywords Markov decision processes; optimization
Description We study the complexity of central controller synthesis problems for finite-state Markov decision processes, where the objective is to optimize both the expected mean-payoff performance of the system and its stability. We argue that the basic theoretical notion of expressing the stability in terms of the variance of the mean-payoff (called global variance in our paper) is not always sufficient, since it ignores possible instabilities on respective runs. For this reason we propose alernative definitions of stability, which we call local and hybrid variance, and which express how rewards on each run deviate from the run's own mean-payoff and from the expected mean-payoff, respectively.
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