Formalising the Problem: The Markov Decision Process

The five-element MDP tuple (S, A, P, R, gamma) that frames nearly every reinforcement learning problem, and the Markov property that makes the problem tractable.

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By the end of this topic, you will

List the five elements of a Markov Decision Process and what each one represents
Explain the Markov property in plain language, using the honeypot session example
State when the Markov assumption breaks down and what that requires instead

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Formalising the Problem: The Markov Decision Process

The dog analogy is enough to build intuition. A security engineering team building a real agent needs the formal structure underneath it: five symbols that frame nearly every RL problem in this course.

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