Discrete Environment

A Discrete Environment is an decisioning environment with finite decision points.

• Example(s):
  • human decision making environment.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Continuous Environment, such as chess game.
• See: Stochastic Environment, Adversarial Environment, Observable Environment.

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References

2014

• https://www.udacity.com/wiki/cs271/unit1-notes#terminology
  • QUOTE: discrete versus continuous. A discrete environment is one where you have finitely many action choices, and finitely many things you can sense. For example, in chess there's finitely many board positions, and finitely many things you can do.

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