Information-Theoretic Meta Dynamic Programming for Signalling and Control of POMDPs (opens in new tab)

In this paper, we study the information-theoretic characterization of simultaneous signalling and control over channels modeled by partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs). The problem is formulated as an optimization over randomized control strategies that maximize the directed information from actions to observations, subject to an average-cost constraint. We derive a novel dynamic programming framework in which the state is def...