On the other hand, a bottom-up approach starts with the basics/fundamentals of programming and then slowly builds your knowledge over time.

To improve tractability, we investigate the linear programming-based approach to approximate dynamic programming. This approach can provide both feasible control policies and bounds on the MDPs' ...

We study an efficient method based on linear programming for approximating solutions to such problems. The approach "fits" a linear combination of pre-selected basis functions to the dynamic ...