Body: <p>Are all RL algorithms based on the MDP? If not, could you give examples of some which aren't? I've looked elsewhere, but I haven't seen it explicitly said. </p>
  
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Comments.Text: [Here](https://qr.ae/TqUMmk)'s a very interesting answer to the question [What are some alternative learning paradigms besides Markov decision processes?](https://qr.ae/TqUuei). I had also asked a similar question two years ago [here](https://datascience.stackexchange.com/q/27010/10640).
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Comments.Text: Thank you for your response; that Quora post is pretty interesting.
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Title: Are there reinforcement learning algorithms not based on Markov decision processes?
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ThreadText: # Are there reinforcement learning algorithms not based on Markov decision processes?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-02-10)
  
  Are all RL algorithms based on the MDP? If not, could you give examples of some which aren't? I've looked elsewhere, but I haven't seen it explicitly said.
  
  **Tags:** reinforcement-learning, markov-decision-process
  
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  > **username_1**: [Here](https://qr.ae/TqUMmk)'s a very interesting answer to the question [What are some alternative learning paradigms besides Markov decision processes?](https://qr.ae/TqUuei). I had also asked a similar question two years ago [here](https://datascience.stackexchange.com/q/27010/10640).  
  > **username_0**: Thank you for your response; that Quora post is pretty interesting.  
  
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