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Normalized discounted occupancy is a probability distribution
Statement
Let a finite discounted CMDP, a stationary policy , its finite-time state-mass vectors , its normalized discounted occupancy , and the expected discounted signal be as defined above. Each is a probability distribution, is a probability distribution, and for every real and every transition signal satisfying for all , the series defining converges absolutely and satisfies .
Statement references
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A finite CMDP with initial distribution , discount , a stationary policy , and the recursive state masses and occupancy defined in the linked items. For the signal bound, fix a real and a transition signal with for every .
Finite Markov decision process with joint reward-transition law: for each admissible , the joint next-state/reward masses are nonnegative and .
Finite Markov decision process with joint reward-transition law: a stationary Markov policy has and .
Expected discounted-cost feasibility constraint: is the series of finite sums of the time- transition masses multiplied by and .
For , , and for the series diverges: for , .
Absolute convergence and tail bound for bounded discounted rewards: every real sequence bounded in absolute value by has an absolutely convergent -discounted series whose absolute value is at most .
The principle of mathematical induction: a property holding at and preserved from each natural number to its successor holds for every natural number.
Proof
The initial vector is nonnegative and sums to one. If is a probability distribution, then the recurrence and [F2]–[F3] give nonnegative next masses and . By [F8], every is a probability distribution.
By step 1.1, for every , so each coordinate series in [F4] converges by comparison with the geometric series [F6]. Since is finite, its coordinate series can be summed termwise, giving and by [F6]. Thus is a probability distribution.
For each , the finite transition weights are nonnegative and sum to one by step 1.1 and [F2]–[F3]. Hence their weighted sum of has absolute value at most . Apply [F7] to this bounded sequence of time- signal sums; the series in [F5] converges absolutely and its absolute value is at most .
Depends on
- Finite discounted constrained Markov decision process
- Expected discounted-cost feasibility constraint
- Finite Markov decision process with joint reward-transition law
- Normalized discounted state occupancy
- Absolute convergence and tail bound for bounded discounted rewards
- The principle of mathematical induction
- For $|r| < 1$, $\sum_{k \ge 0} r^k = 1/(1-r)$, and for $|r| \ge 1$ the series diverges
Used by
- Discounted value, action-value, and advantage functions Definition
- Discounted occupancy change is bounded by average policy TV Lemma
- Performance-difference identity for an arbitrary bounded baseline Lemma
- Policy performance bound by average divergence Theorem
Cited to discharge well-definedness by Expected discounted-cost feasibility constraint, Finite discounted constrained Markov decision process and Normalized discounted state occupancy.
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Sources
- Joshua Achiam, David Held, Aviv Tamar, and Pieter Abbeel, Constrained Policy Optimization, supplementary material (standard reference, not scraped)
- Eitan Altman, Constrained Markov Decision Processes (standard reference, not scraped)