Equation 10 · Part 1 · The Hardest Unsolved Problems in AI Agent Architecture
Symbol eta
What this part means
the normalizing constant.
Its job in the formula
eta is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
with a normalizing constant.
The passage around this formula
with a normalizing constant. Kaelbling, Littman and Cassandra’s original treatment of this update is also where the difficulty is made explicit: they show that the amount of memory an optimal policy needs is not bounded in advance by the size of the problem, and that reducing the reliability of a…
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