This was my total reward for surviving 13 years.
The expected total reward, however, cannot be calculated precisely in POMDPIPs, because of the parameter imprecision.
The team objective is to maximize the total reward accumulated over a given time interval.
Most RL methods optimize the discounted total reward received by an agent, while, in many domains, the natural criterion is to optimize the average reward per time step.
As in POMDPs, the criterion is to regard a policy, i.e., an action-selection rule, as optimal if it maximizes the expected total reward.
Instead, we estimate the total reward by adopting arbitrary second-order beliefs, i.e., beliefs in the imprecisely specified state transition functions and observation functions.
By appropriately choosing which second-order beliefs to use in estimating the total reward, computational costs incurred in obtaining such an optimal policy can be reduced significantly.
The FDA firmly believes that these changes to pension arrangements must be accompanied by an overall rebalancing of the total reward package for senior public servants.
This means that the total reward for judicial posts must be sufficient to ensure that suitable candidates are attracted to judicial office.
In their models group members accept leaders as a way to increase their individual benefits (even when leaders take a bigger share of the total reward).
In this work, the performance of the system is quantified as the total reward earned from completing tasks by their individual deadlines.
