Notions of Optimality

Notions of optimality:
Optimal: A policy with optimal value

e-Optimal: A policy within e of optimal for arbitrary timesteps.

e,T-Optimal: A policy within e of optimal for the next T timesteps.

local optimal: A policy which can not be improved in some restricted space of operations.

e-local optimal: A policy which can not be improved by more than e in some restricted space of operations.