import random class MarkovDecisionProcess: def getStates(self): """ Return a list of all states in the MDP. Not generally possible for large MDPs. """ abstract def getStartState(self): """ Return the start state of the MDP. """ abstract def getPossibleActions(self, state): """ Return list of possible actions from 'state'. """ abstract def getTransitionStatesAndProbs(self, state, action): """ Returns list of (nextState, prob) pairs representing the states reachable from 'state' by taking 'action' along with their transition probabilities. Note that in Q-Learning and reinforcment learning in general, we do not know these probabilities nor do we directly model them. """ abstract def getReward(self, state, action, nextState): """ Get the reward for the state, action, nextState transition. Not available in reinforcement learning. """ abstract def isTerminal(self, state): """ Returns true if the current state is a terminal state. By convention, a terminal state has zero future rewards. Sometimes the terminal state(s) may have no possible actions. It is also common to think of the terminal state as having a self-loop action 'pass' with zero reward; the formulations are equivalent. """ abstract