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Answer by David for Are the state-action values and the state value function...

In general they are not the same and that should be clear as to why -- mathematically you are conditioning on an extra random variable being known in the state-action value function. You have the...

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Are the state-action values and the state value function equivalent for a given policy? I would assume so as the value function is defined as $V(s)=\sum_a \pi(a|s)Q_{\pi}(s,a)$. If we are operating a...

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